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Originally Posted by Karma_
Do you find a big benefit to having the amber filters?
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Honestly, the only thing I was told:
"We saw your green eyes, but we were dead anyways"
So I think the only real benefit so far has been less eye strain. I would say you do lose a low % of visibility when using the filters, weather or not you are ok with that is completely up to the operators fancy.
The filters are handy on PVS-15's since everything gain related on the 15's is automatic, thus the brightness can be overwhelming at times. You can't be fiddling with gain control for two eyes, and then on top of that screwing around with your objective focus for each individual eye. So if anything the filters "normalize" the gain a bit.
I guess the only other big thing for our purposes would be it functioning as another level of protection between bb's and the eyepiece glass. So if you're not running demist shields, a single $50.00 dollar Wilcox filter would probably be a worthy investment in the "protect my shit" department.