You don't need night vision for anything but people use it, you don't need thermal for anything but people use it.. ?? Why because its better, watch a beam of light get thrown around a field back end of the season, and watch things instantly start moving...less disturbance to game and immediate area around you .. visible light is old hat and things get educated really quick, so your opinion to me is not a valid one..
The Photon was a good unit, but plagued with little issues, and 640 resolution, the Pard NV008 is now 1080P much higher resolution, has powerful inbuilt VCSEL laser, full HD colour also and replaceable batteries are £4.. no brainer.. times move on, nothing stands still for long...
I used to go out with a 1,000,000 candle power lamp , red filter and a car battery around my shoulder as a kid , I'm not going back to that to reminisce.
Be fair though you are one of the only people selling PARDS are you not ? so your being far from un-bias ,
I can recommend a lot of NV that is better and yes more expensive than a pard but there are still guys out there shooting just as many rabbits if not more with just a lamp,
Nightvision has its downsides as do all products for shooting and you need to use all in conjuction with each other, if it is raining outside heavy no matter whether you are shooting with a lamp or NV or even Thermal for that matter your gonna have issues.
If your popping 20 or so rabbits month and your doing it for sport then you do not need NV ,
I have spent the last 5 or 6 years testing all sorts of nightvision etc etc ,
It was not that long ago that on forums like this the Nightmaster was bein branded as the best lamp on the market, which is actually rubbish and many have come to realise that.
I am not putting the Pard down, I have used it and yes it is very good for the money, but like all NV is your not used to it it does take a bit of getting used too and guys like us that are clued up on it have to remember this.
I personally , for the money, think one of the best units on the market right now is the N450 / 455 but to warrant £1000 to shoot 20 rabbits a month would be stupid .
IN FACT , at the moment in the North of Scotland there is NO need for any Nightvision and I have actually been using day scopes without lamp right out until midnight recently. So just now with the long days NV is useless .
Anyways each to their own .