unshootable mirage

[ronsatspokane]

It was a thought. Guess we'll have to hold out for active optics.

Yeah, you can't shoot with IS on when the camera is stable. That raises havoc with the resulting image. One time I was shooting off a tripod and all the images were blurry. Turn off IS and all of a sudden they were tack sharp.

 

[Turbulent Turtle]

Yeah, and to go with the active optics, we should use self-guiding bullets.

Kinda takes away from the sport.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Its a little different trying to stabilize an image for a picture than trying to get active electronics to line you up with something hundreds of yards away

 

[dgeesaman]

Its a little different trying to stabilize an image for a picture than trying to get active electronics to line you up with something hundreds of yards away

Indeed its a lot different. With mirage there is no frame of reference to stabilize when the image itself is distorting and inconsistent. And unlike imperfections in a lens system, it’s always changing. Mirage correction, if it was a thing, would be more analogous to the “enhance” image edit that only exists in surveillance movie scenes.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Indeed its a lot different. With mirage there is no frame of reference to stabilize when the image itself is distorting and inconsistent. And unlike imperfections in a lens system, it’s always changing. Mirage correction, if it was a thing, would be more analogous to the “enhance” image edit that only exists in surveillance movie scenes.

What if it stabilized it in the wrong spot then 3 shots later it refreshed and stabilized it in another wrong spot. Could get disastrous!

 

[dgeesaman]

What if it stabilized it in the wrong spot then 3 shots later it refreshed and stabilized it in another wrong spot. Could get disastrous!

The human brain does exactly that, which is why the advice to trust your tracking in group benchrest makes a lot of sense.

 

[johara1]

I'm like Dusty, I want to see the mirage not hide it, I never reduce the power. I learn to try to shoot at the same point of movement of the image, and I do best when it clicks back...... jim

 

[dgeesaman]

Where I have trouble is returning to battery and the target is not where I left it......
J

I wish I could say I have mastery of this too

 

[kzin]

I've seen light to heavy mirage where the target 'shimmers' to varying degrees many times before but the match I posted about was the first time where it was bobbing up and down and even jumping sideways.

I that from different conditions?

Shooting over 200 yards of grass in western ny, mirage is not the prevailing condition.