Welcome to OpticsThoughts!
The website you are looking at is sort of a “OpticsThoughts 2.0″, although as far as look at feel goes, it should not be a major difference from the original site. That having been said, we did change the backend for the site and, hopefully, it will be a bit easier to maintain.
Most of the material here is on the subject of sporting optics: riflescopes, binoculars and spotters. We will occasionally add some general musing on the firearms, knives and whatever else occupies my mind at that particular time. Since my day job is in electro-optics and digital imaging, I will also add some camera gear recommendation here and there.
I started out this site primarily to have a venue for my thoughts on sporting optics, but it has expanded some. Aside from writing about things that interest me, I also serve as a editor for others whose work appears here.
If you want to know more about how this site came to be and he are the people behind it, look into “About Opticsthoughts” on your right.
If you would like to comment on any of the articles you need to create an account here. Contact me if you need help with that.
With that out of the way, I hope you find something useful here and if there is something you think I should add to the site, do not hesitate to let me know.
Thanks for visiting!
ILya Koshkin
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Daniel Defense tried to place a SuperBowl ad. NFL denied it claiming that it does not fit their (self-imposed) advertising guidelines. Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLQxnOZmvc I am not a football fan, so my opinion really does not matter. However, for those of you who are, what say you? As far as I am [...]
Another article series I decided to start a while back is on miniature red dot sights. The first section is up: http://opticsthoughts.com/?page_id=1237 ILya
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I faced an unusual question on camera selection a few days ago, so I decided to step away from scope testing for a day or so and put down some thoughts on cameras. Let me know what you think: http://opticsthoughts.com/?page_id=1223 ILya
As behind as I am on my current batch of articles, I still keep on looking at new stuff to look at. A couple of days ago, I got a package from Vortex with some loaner equipment that I was curious about. By and large, I want to step away from the uber-expensive stuff for [...]
I guess this is my Q&A day… Here is another question that just arrived here from a gentleman I have exchanged e-mails with before on other projects: I am looking to put a scope on my newly acquired (though experienced) Kimber Montana 8400 in 300 WSM. This is a light rifle I will be using [...]
Here is another question I received a little while back: I’ve been a reader of some of the forums where you post and would like your opinion on these scopes if you can spare some time. First, what is your opinion on the Duralyt and how does it compare with Zeiss’s higher end optics? I’m [...]
I field a fair number of questions that are typically delivered to me via e-mail or some other means of private communication. I kinda like it that way since that give me an opportunity to decide how to answer that question. Some of the questions, if I think they are relevant, I will answer in [...]
After some deliberation (and a little prodding from my friends at Weby Shops), I decided to start another article series specifically aimed at AR-type rifles and the scopes that are appropriate for different configurations of these rifles. In the introductory piece I try to divide the AR markets into segments. Follow on parts of [...]
The website is all new and I am still learning how to use it. All of the content of the old site has been ported over, but I imagine some picture links and things like that are broken. If you find something that needs fixing, please use the contact form to let me know. Thanks [...]