There is a new handheld thermal camera made by Thermal-Eye that costs less than $5,000.00. I personally have not had a chance to use it yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing it work and comparing it with the X200xp, it's more expense cousin. It uses the same housing as the X200xp, but the main difference is a lower resolution on the image. As soon as I get to check one out, I will write some more info on my blog here and give a full review.

Recently had the opportunity to check out a "SuperVision" night vision monocular. It operates on a lowlight high resolution CCD image sensor with variable gain control and frame integration to achieve low light viewing performance. It did not match up to a PVS-14 Generation 3 night vision device, contrary to advertisements I've seen. It was unable to view detail from far away. What I personally thought it did extremely well, was display what I call "Night Shadows". If you were to view a dark area with a fair amount of ambient light, but could not see under trees and bushes, because those areas were darker or darker ( what I call night shadows ), the SuperVision enables you to see into those areas from a about 50-75 yards away. It is perfect for that. Would you see more with a Gen 3 PVS-14? Yes. But it will cost you more to see the same thing. Overall, if you're on a lower budget, a SuperVision monocular could make sense for your application, it just depends on exactly what your application is and how serious. If lives are on line, I probably wouldn't recommend it. If keeping on eye on your property or backyard at night, I would very much consider it.