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Discussion starter · #21 ·
He's already got the rangefinder in the works. It's an add on that would mount to the bracket, plug into the bottom
Of you phone and give you the read out in the screen :tu:

He's also working on night vision/thermal.really the only limiting factor on this thing is your imagination.
 
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#24 ·
Does it require cell phone reception?
 
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Kansas doesn't allow electronic devices attached to the bow except for lighted sight pins or dots. P&Y doesn't allow any of that as well as lighted nocks. Doesn't matter to me much since I prefer my custom recurve. Wonder how it would work on a bowfishing bow???
 
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CRAZY Stuff Here, Guess I need to keep an eye to the future!!!
Does this mean I have to throw my pinwheel software out???
 
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MSWhitehead said:
Kansas doesn't allow electronic devices attached to the bow except for lighted sight pins or dots. P&Y doesn't allow any of that as well as lighted nocks. Doesn't matter to me much since I prefer my custom recurve. Wonder how it would work on a bowfishing bow???
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LOL Don't look at me! I don't even like having my Iphone on my person when Bowfishing ;)
 
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#32 ·
Very neat idea and a lot of work is being put into it for sure. Ill have to have it but dont know about hunting with it. There are some ethical issues I'd have to deal with personally I think before I could use it for hunting but maybe not.
 
#33 ·
It's a good idea, but I see it being an issue when "camera" light is low but the shooter can still see plain as day. I know I would be pizzed when I drew my bow and my fancy little sight camera coudnt pick up enough light to be able to make out what the camera was pointed at. I dont really see a way to work around that problem?
But it is a pretty sweet idea! Just not for me

And what if you were anchored and about to squeeze the release off on ole mossy horns and you got a call? No more sight picture?

Im not bashing, just asking
 
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TWright33 said:
It's a good idea, but I see it being an issue when "camera" light is low but the shooter can still see plain as day. I know I would be pizzed when I drew my bow and my fancy little sight camera coudnt pick up enough light to be able to make out what the camera was pointed at. I dont really see a way to work around that problem?
But it is a pretty sweet idea! Just not for me

And what if you were anchored and about to squeeze the release off on ole mossy horns and you got a call? No more sight picture?

Im not bashing, just asking
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The phone/text features can easily be disabled when the sight is in operation. Basicly the same thing as putting in in airplane mode ;)
As far as the low light? It all depends on the area your hunting. Thick dark pine or cedar may not be a great choice unless using the thermal or night vision option
 
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I'm thinking an external optical viewing device would be necessary to really make this efficient. I know my phone camera is crap in low light, can't see it being any better at a distance.

Still think it's a badass idea though lol
 
#36 ·
Then when you add an "external optical viewing device" you've just defeted the whole "phone" concept. You might as well make a "camera" that mounts like a sight would and have the same profiles, features etc. Which would probably be better IMO.

I think whoever came up with this should just drop the iphone concept and think more along the lines of a camera type system, not from a cell phone.

And if that doesnt work I think a transparent screen with the same crosshair and pin type, size features would be more beneficial since then you do not need camera light, you would basically look through what would appear to be a standard lense but would be a transparent screen with the same feature as the "ibow"
 
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TWright33 said:
Then when you add an "external optical viewing device" you've just defeated the whole "phone" concept. You might as well make a "camera" that mounts like a sight would and have the same profiles, features etc. Which would probably be better IMO.

I think whoever came up with this should just drop the iPhone concept and think more along the lines of a camera type system, not from a cell phone.

And if that doesn't work I think a transparent screen with the same crosshair and pin type, size features would be more beneficial since then you do not need camera light, you would basically look through what would appear to be a standard lens but would be a transparent screen with the same feature as the "ibow"
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I had tried all you mentioned, and none worked since 1998 (I had been working on a HUD sight for a few years). Apple's iPhone4S has the best optics of ANY phone and the display at 326dpi there is no equal. If you are like me who has been a software developer since 1988 there is no better API than iOS5. For peripheral hardware, iPhone4S is just blown away good.

Now think what electronics device you own had taken more abuse, shock, rain, snow, food than your phone. I had washed my original iPhone in a full cotton hot wash cycle in a Bosh washer ( that is 3 spin cycles; I forgot that it was in my pull over middle pocket) and it still works after that. And my son used it 2 more years as an iTouch till he finally snapped the phone in half when he roll down the hill with it in his pocket. That is 3.5 years of abuse.
 
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#38 ·
The thing i keep wondering is how long the phone will hold up to the shock of the bow. All bows do and will put off vibrations on the shot. After several thousand arrows, how will it effect the phone? Or how much abuse will the phone take. Since the phone wasnt designed to be treated like that.

Just a thought.
 
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That is what I had shown in the Mathews show. Here is some pictures of them Below is what it looks like in Elusion snow camo for iBowSight and AeroRest on my son's Craze. Notice the ring color changes when I tilt the bow!
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FYI, the bow like Craze is about as small as a bow that can use iBowSight due to the phone size, any lower on the mount, there will not have enough room to shoot.
 
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