I got to use a new Boson Q14-B with a manual focus 25mm objective lens the last two nights out hog hunting and am throughly impressed, am sticking by my statement that the 320 Boson core view is as good as most current 640 cores except for the narrower FOV. Pretty much provided almost the exact same vivid image as my 640 TAU2 core FLIR M-18s do, which is impressive to say the least.
The CR-123 Battery is the heaviest component to it and the entire unit probably weighs about the same as 4-CR-123 batteries, making it super nice as a helmet mounted detection scanner. Super lightweight, super handy, very small, with a big viewing screen image. The 1X, 2X, 4X and 8X digital magnifications all work just fine.
This particular lens was an experimental lens and worked great but did not have a great depth of view when focused, I think different diopter settings would change that but could not mess with that in the dark and with the 320 Boson core I would prefer a smaller 19mm lens for more FOV, depth of field, and less range, although with a 640 core Boson core the 25mm objective would be totally awesome and provide much more FOV and range distance clarity. Out 250 yards scanning was not a problem with this lens though, which was the range of my elevated shooting stand to the other side of the food plot, feeder was laser ranged at 175 yards and everything was in plain view with all palette settings.
Pretty awesome for such a tiny lightweight thermal kit.
The Q14-B Boson core 12 micron 320 core is some kind of handy functional kit.
It has alot of additional image control features I wish had been built into the previous RS series scopes that virtually have changed the entire setup for the end user.
There are now 100 variation settings for the AGC (automatic gain control) to adjust to personal preferences or you can turn off AGC and manually adjust.
There are also 100 variation settings for both Sharpness and Contrast and Brightness to allow you to fine turn you own individual preferences in the menu and save your adjustments as a User Preset so that it boots up exactly the way you want it each and everytime!
Many different reticules and reticule color choices and a boresight adjustment to adjust and save your reticule position on different rifles after targeting each different one.
Also some new and to me very exciting color pallettes, including one I had not seen before that is absolutely totally functional for scanning heat signatures for targeting or finding downed targets. Urban Glow looks like a major extension over the Graded Fire pallette, it has a fire red-orange bright tightly contrasted heat signature target in basic black hot mode that I was able to adjust to the point to the only thing showing in the image was the highly lite up and contrasted target, major improvement over the previous Red Alert pallette for much more precise location of thermal signatures while muting out anything else, only the heat signature lights up.
The ocular lens on the Q14-B is not a PVS-14 copy but a little bit smaller with a rotary diopter adjustment, while the objective lens was a manual rotary adjustable lens too.
I really like the ability to go into the menu and adjust all the various parameter settings and save them as you like so that when you first turn it on it boots right into your favorite setting. Boot up time is about 4-5 seconds and then you are GTG.
Did I say this kit is tiny and lightweight?
My Colt Jr. .25 ACP is four inches long and weighs three times what the Q-14B weighs.
My Spyderco Enduro is five inches long and weighs twice what the Q-14B weighs.