Review on 🔦 Enhance Your Night Vision with the Firefield Nightfall Night Vision Monocular by Dana Schmidt

I bought this to check out the nocturnal animals that frequently visit my garden and patio and often encounter things at night, especially the trash can lid. The first night I set it up, set it up, and focused it, I spotted a raccoon walking along the railing of my deck and watched it move. I turned it on in passive mode because there was enough city light to see it clearly. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have seen it with the naked eye because the deck is in the shadow of the streetlights. What worries people the most is that they can't figure out how to focus. There are a number of previous reviews detailing how to do this, but apparently some people don't read all the reviews (like me). This monocular has a very shallow depth of field, and you'll need to constantly change focus when scanning from near to far. It can focus on things just a few feet from the lens indefinitely. So for the hundredth time. There are two lenses, an objective and an eyepiece. Find something contrasting so you can see the lines and edges (a tree trunk works well). The front lens should be adjusted to give the best resolution (even if that means it looks blurry) without shifting the focus of the eyepiece lens. Roll it back and forth, from unfocused to focused, back to unfocused, to get a feel for where the best focus is "in the middle" between the unfocused positions, and leave it there. THEN, without touching the front lens, rotate the eyepiece lens to get the best residual focus. The eyepiece actually focuses on the back end of the imaging tube inside the unit, so you don't have to touch it after inserting the eyepiece. You can make a mark so you can quickly refocus if you accidentally move the eyepiece. Any further focusing is done with the front lens. Yes, it's fuzzy around the edges. However, the more light you have, the clearer the overall picture appears. The built-in illumination projects a beam that fills about 2/3 of the field of view, which coincidentally covers almost the sharpest part of the field of view, so the IR illumination is only used where it's most useful. I've found it to provide pretty good illumination up to about 150 meters away. But you can certainly see much further, and I only turn on the light when trying to see in the darkest shadows or in a dark room. One thing I mentioned in a few reviews was that you look up at the stars and you can see more stars than you can with the naked eye. It's not a telescope, but stars lost in haze and light pollution can definitely be seen with the naked eye. I like it; i think i will keep it!