See subject (scroll to find vid). Is it even possible?
Looks laughably fake to me. The view through a rifle scope is a circle, not that double-lobed whatever-it-is.
Yeah, looks like the “binocular” effect you see in movies.
And of course, that’s a movie effect. A single lens on a camera wouldn’t look through both oculars of a binocular.
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The still image is clearly a processed shot, and while it is lifted from the video, it’s only part of the video. Later in the video, there is what appears to be real gunsight images that could have been shot thru a scope.
Is it possible to film such a thing? Oh, yah, sure.
I’m at a loss to think of how one could attach a camera to a scope and still be able to accurately aim the rifle while looking through the viewfinder of the camera, at least accurately enough to keep the reticle accurately aimed at the targets. It makes me think that the video was shot with a digital camera, perhaps digitally zoomed in some of those clips, and then the reticle superimposed.
But that’s just my WAG.
FWIW, the reticle in the article looks similar to those on things like military binoculars, like this example. Not range-finding per se, but if you know the lines are X mils/MOA apart, and you know that so and so is about 6 feet tall, and you know at what distance away, an angle of X mils subtends 6 feet, you can figure out how far stuff is from you. Still challenging to photograph through it, and I’ve never seen a view from binoculars that wasn’t one circle, but whatever.
The scope reticle in the video looks odd. I guess it’s this one found here.
The video’s of poor quality compared to the stuff that ISIS et al usually send out. Probably bought the camera at the same place as the cut rate rifle scope.
They do make scopes that you can purchase that have a memory card in them and camera to record what you’re viewing through the scope. Heres some:
Not only would a camera only look through one side of a pair of binoculars, but even when you’re looking through binoculars with your eyes, if they’re properly aligned, you still see only a circle, not that Mastercard symbol shape.