#10MinuteTalk - Are Red Dots Truly Parallax Free

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🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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You’ve seen it discussed in marketing material, forum conversations and asked about in comments sections all over social media but it’s still kinda confusing. What is “Parallax Free” when it comes to red dots and holographic sights, why is it important, how does it work and is it truly actually “Parallax Free”? Rob Morell, director of Vortex product development, joins Jimmy and Mark to discuss the engineering and physics behind that phrase and even some of the common misconceptions revolving around it.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes today with Rob Morel who joined us for the Range Finders,
0:04.9	Everything You Ever Wanna No Podcast, and we're going to attempt to discuss Parallax in Red Dots.
0:11.4	Rob, welcome to the podcast again.
0:14.6	Now explain for a lot of people when they see red dots or
0:17.8	holographic sites as well, they see something called
0:20.4	Parallax Free.
0:22.4	And I think you're going to debunk a myth maybe break some hearts out
0:25.4	there about what Parallax-Free is, but yeah, where would you start on that? What even
0:30.9	is it? What does it mean that it's parallax free?
0:33.0	So so parallax is kind of the apparent shift of a target image
0:37.5	depending on what angle you're looking at it.
0:40.0	And so I don't think there are any chairs around here. You might want to sit down.
0:43.6	None of the red dots that are on the market
0:45.4	are truly parallax-free.
0:48.0	I know, I know.
0:49.3	But don't worry.
0:50.5	It's gonna be okay.
0:51.2	My whole world's collapsing in on itself.
0:53.3	Well, I mean, so I'm an engineer by trade, right? So from a physics standpoint, they're not
0:58.9	parallax-free, but from like a practical use standpoint, effectively they are
1:03.8	for all intents and purposes for us shooting.
1:06.4	So really what's happening with Red Dot sites
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