Aimpoint Launches New Optical Filters For Electronic Sights
Chantilly, VA – -(ShootingWire.com)- Aimpoint announces the introduction of two new optical filters designed to fit the company’s popular 30mm electronic sight products. These new filters enhance the performance of Aimpoint red-dot sights by reducing solar reflection and glare on sunny days, and increasing optical contrast in poor light. Both of these new filters will fit all new and existing full-size Aimpoint sights including the 9000 series, all Comp series sights and all generations of the US Military’s M68 Close Combat Optic also manufactured by Aimpoint. These filters may be mounted and removed instantly without the use of tools, and are extremely small and lightweight.
Aimpoint Polarized Filter
Sunlight reflecting off of automotive windshields and glazed windows can obscure a threat by overpowering the human eye s ability to filter solar energy. Aimpoint s new Polarization Filter helps to reduce reflection and glare, allowing police and military users to identify who or what stands behind the glass. This product consists of a high-quality polarized lens mounted in a threaded soft plastic housing. The filter mounts quickly by hand in the rear lens opening of Aimpoint sights. The user can rotate the filter housing to engage the polarization feature of the
lens to cut through glare, or return it to non-polarized mode quickly and without the use of tools. By reducing the amount of reflected sunlight, the filter allows the user to see whether the personnel behind the glass represent a threat or not. While this may seem like a very small development, the utilization of these filters by police and military will save lives said Aimpoint Vice President Brian Lisankie. Military and law enforcement personnel are required to act quickly and decisively under a variety of conditions. Using one of these filters can allow the operator to determine whether a car approaching a road block contains an identifiable threat or appears harmless.
This inexpensive yet effective tool can help to prevent a needless tragedy, while also allowing identification a true threat earlier than possible with the naked eye. This filter is also ideal for sportsmen while hunting in bright sunlight, and the level of polarization can be changed quickly and easily to adapt to changes in conditions in the field.
Aimpoint Yellow Filter
A yellow colored lens enhances visual contrast, and allows the human eye to locate and define a target better.
This is especially true in poor light conditions caused by insufficient sunlight at dawn and dusk, or on cloudy or hazy days. Aimpoint s high-contrast Yellow Filter enhances visual definition, and increases the effectiveness of the red-dot sight when the lack of good light makes target identification difficult. The Aimpoint Yellow Filter consists of a high quality lens mounted in a threaded soft plastic housing that fits into the rear lens opening on any 30mm Aimpoint sight. Small enough to fit comfortably in a shirt pocket the Yellow Filter can be installed or removed immediately without the use of tools. Yellow shooting glasses have been available for many years, but it is not always feasible to carry multiple pairs of glasses said Aimpoint Vice President Brian Lisankie. Sport shooters firing at targets on hazy days and hunters searching for that elusive trophy at first light or at dusk all need the extra optical definition that the Aimpoint Yellow Filter offers. The extra performance capabilities created by this new product just increase the number of reasons why Aimpoint sights are the choice of serious sportsmen and women worldwide .
Product Introduction at 2009 SHOT Show
Aimpoint will publicly launch these new optical filter products at the 2009 Shooting Hunting & Outdoor Trade
(SHOT) Show which will be held on January 15-18 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. The products will be displayed at the Aimpoint booths #661 in the General Hunting & Shooting section, and #9369 in the Law Enforcement section.
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