I've got my 5-18 working good except for the lack of audio on my videos.
Maybe the next update will bring us sound? I really prefer my Armasight Thermal
but This is not a bad addition.

been a while since in update, sound used to work, think they would get off their [censored] and fix this

This. ^^^^^

Finally, today I found out what's up with the 15 fps video output I was getting. It's because I set the "light amplification" setting on "medium" to get rid of the image flick. It seems X-sight is using longer exposure time to increase the brightness.
So I recorded 3 videos in 3 different settings "low", "medium", and "high". The fps are 29, 14, and 7 fps respectively. Now if I want to get normal video speed, I have to live with image flick.

that is a good find - thanks for sharing

You are welcome. From your youtube videos and also your post here, I learned a lot. Thanks!
Thanks to Bruce on nightvisionforumuk, who mentioned some company use longer exposure time to lower the lux rating. That give me an idea to see if the fps is related to the light amplification.

I read that same post, but didn't put 2 and 2 together. I'm researching building a hand held spotter that "some bloke" came up with. I've ordered everything, but the e700 camera chip. Those guys are amazing when it comes to DIY night vision.

Bruce aka Phoenix is the Man!

David K, there is no sound, i just wanted to share what player,
plays .mov in all OS, and by the way i'm back on .253 it's the best
official firmware.
Beta .246 is absolutely the best one ever, bad it has som many funtions
turned of.

/MKL

camera to use is the watec 902h 1/2 ccd with a 5.50 lens the e700 ant mutch good as a spotter as theres no mag. go on youtube name b4ger731 film is called my edited vidio 20th of may 2012 watec camera filming a badger

I'll check it out. I'm putting the E700 behind a 58mm F1.4 SLR lens so it'll be about 4X magnification. The 1.4 F stop should gather lots of light. I saw "some blokes" youtube video, where he was spotting rabbits with no IR at all, and showing shadows under trees with 1/2 moon IIRC. I'll probably use a watec if I decide to build a broom scope.

A firmware update is being testing. Should be releasing in the next couple of days.

Cool. Can you share what enhancements we will see?

Beaubien,
It is going to address the sounds issue and optimize few of the backend processing.

That is great. So what is going to be lost in the process?

hopefully more bugs

Will it do anything at all to address the dimming or should we be waiting for a future update for that?

Maybe it will get rid of the "dimming" bug....

Awesome..

Sachal, did I misunderstand your earlier statement that seemed to indicate you could not address the dimming because it affected other functions?

DF...I think he meant they couldn't make it adjustable...but might be able to set it to a certain exposure level.

Thanks...we'll see...it didn't have this issue (dimming)to begin with...

I know...I think .200 was ok from what I remember.

we have isolated the dimming issue and the team is working on addressing it. We know exactly whats causing and it will be addressed - unfortunately its hundreds of thousands of coding lines that they have to go through so I cannot give you an exact date.

sachal, any idea when my sunshade will get to me, been well over a month since I emailed you.