DNT Zulus V2 QUESTION

Brian243

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Advice from users please. I’m looking at buying a DNT Zulus V2 to go on my .260, it will mainly be used for morning and evening deer stalking taking advantage of the hour before sunrise and after sunset but occasionally sitting out until mid morning. Also I want it to be able to step in for my nighttime foxing rig if necessary. On the ground I stalk daytime shots would be an absolute max. of 300 metres (infrequent) and nighttime 150 m maximum, most shots are usually around 100 m or less.
My question is do I go for the ZHD520R with it’s greater magnification or the ZHD312R with the wider field of view? As far as I can see there are no differences between the two models apart from magnification.
 
Advice from users please. I’m looking at buying a DNT Zulus V2 to go on my .260, it will mainly be used for morning and evening deer stalking taking advantage of the hour before sunrise and after sunset.
The Zulus won’t take you to last knockings, the image quality and lag sets in way before.
Alpex or C50 will.
 
Really?

I guess you may be thinking about its overall image quality...not it's ability to render a colour image at first and last light?

Zulus colour capability at first/last night is a long way behind the Alpex/Lite and later versions of the C50.

It's a great unit and probably does shade image quality overall....but the inability to produce a colour image when the Hik is still going strong makes it limited for purely stalking purposes. That is unless you prefer to shoot in monochrome?
 
Rubbish. I just sold my C50 and moved to a Zulus. Its superior in every way and saved me over half a kg of weight.
Not rubbish at all, i too swapped the C50 for a Zulus, the dusk performance of the Zulus is nowhere near the C50.
I now own 2x Zulus and 2x Alpex 4k and the Alpex is way ahead of the Zulus.
 
Really?

I guess you may be thinking about its overall image quality...not it's ability to render a colour image at first and last light?

Zulus colour capability at first/last night is a long way behind the Alpex/Lite and later versions of the C50.

It's a great unit and probably does shade image quality overall....but the inability to produce a colour image when the Hik is still going strong makes it limited for purely stalking purposes. That is unless you prefer to shoot in monochrome?
Absolutely, to add, the black and white image at dusk is also miles superior on the Alpex.
I can’t believe some of the guff you read in these NV threads.
 
Definitely the 5-20 on a centre fire at these ranges.
The 3-12 has a wider field of view but, obviously, only 12x Zoom as opposed to 20x. The site picture is very usable at 20x.
Also, if you use the 3-12 on 12 power the image will be more pixilated than the image of the 5-20 when that too is on 12 power.
Ken.
 
Can’t speak for the new model but the original has fantastic light gathering especially if used in IR mode but the IR torch turned off - note the range. I couldn’t make out the hedgerow never mind the hares!

🦊🦊

It is good....but again is B&W.......not as capable at first or last light in colour.

Hik colour image is what does it for me.....and why I flogged my Zulus.....it and the sh**e menu.....😃
 
Can’t speak for the new model but the original has fantastic light gathering especially if used in IR mode but the IR torch turned off - note the range. I couldn’t make out the hedgerow never mind the hares!

🦊🦊

With respect, that video is totally misleading. If the time is correct, a quick google search shows it was taken 6 minutes before sunrise. At that time of the day its near enough daylight and more than enough ambient light for the Zulus to give an image like that. Now turn that around, 54 minutes before sunrise (6 minutes into legal light) and that image would be black with sparkling bits. There’s absolutely no way a Zulus can give that image in the video in the last and first 15 mins or so of legal light, the sensor isn’t up to it and the lens isn’t big enough to gather the light, ive got 2 use them all the time and know exactly what they are and aren’t capable of. Even Bruce says it and if you snap him in half it says Zulus in the middle🤣
 
Really?

I guess you may be thinking about its overall image quality...not it's ability to render a colour image at first and last light?

Zulus colour capability at first/last night is a long way behind the Alpex/Lite and later versions of the C50.

It's a great unit and probably does shade image quality overall....but the inability to produce a colour image when the Hik is still going strong makes it limited for purely stalking purposes. That is unless you prefer to shoot in monochrome?
So ID in colour and flick to mono. No problem at all.
 
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