Hi All,
The Photon has turned into a bit of 'Emperors New Clothes' unfortunately.
It got bigged up beyond belief by someone who it seems has a vested interest in flogging doubler lens attachments and extra IR illuminators for it. Saying you could shoot at hundreds of yards, etc. People bought them, he sold plenty of bits of plastic and modified chinese torches to go with them, and then as you have seen the crying started
Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with the Photon for it's intended purpose and that is to be something that is a bit better than a Gen1 dedicated rifle scope. So it should be fine on an air rifle or a .22 rimfire. Beyond that is asking too much of it due to it's main limitation (aside from the other problems noted earlier in this thread) which is resolution.
The camera may have a decent resolution which they quote, but what is not advertised is the screen resolution is a very poor 300x225 so each pixel subtends roughly an inch at 100 yards. Call me less than impartial but if you compare that to our Ward-D-Visions 640x480 display you end up with pixel subtensions of .1" at the higher magnifications you can use the system at, but then it is 50-75% more expensive depending on what IR you go for, but you do only have to buy one of them as it's an add on system
Cheers
Clive