Tyler Kreis has blogged about Pentax's new Ultimate Zoom scope. The zoom is controlled with a motor that is operated with a wired remote.
Like Tyler, I cannot think of a good reason to buy it, but I would love to play around with it.
How soon till we start sticking digital cameras on there? The ones with 3.25″ tap to shoot screens
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0I could see that being useful for an handicapped person. There are a few companies that make rifle rests and triggers and stuff so that anyone can hunt or shoot. That’s still not as cool as the wheelchair with tracks that I saw once. Dude went hunting that morning and grass and mud was still on his chassis when he came for physical therapy; he didn’t have time to take them off his regular tires. It was very neat.
0 0Zoom in, stop, enhance!
Now gamers can actually figure out how to operate a scope.
0 0Surley its just as easy to twist it as it to mess about pressing the switch? seems a bit pointless to me!
0 0Josh, I think you may be correct. However, optics were once thought of the same way, and now they’re everywhere, even on hard-use military rifles. So this is just one evolutionary feature that we may see more of in the future.
0 0Josh – Its not like Pentax has never made this system before, they’ve worked out the system over 30 years or more of auto focus and zoom cameras.
0 0I want an auto-focus scope 
0 0Can this scope hook up to the right side button on my optical mouse?
0 0When playing Unreal Tournament 2, I did kind of like the sniper scope that allowed you to zoom in and out with just some keystrokes.
Seems a halfway useful feature to me, if you’re acting in an overwatch capacity. Low power/wide field of view to look at a broad area; high power to make a precise shot on a target you found at low power; and you don’t have to change your hold on the gun or stop looking through the scope to change between the two.
I’m sure we’ll see it commonly on mall-ninja guns tho.
0 0Sounds like a good gimmick that’ll break and leave you with an inoperable rifle scope. I cringe at most ideas like this – seems like a very precise mechanism that has the possibility of failing, and when it does, you can bet it won’t be cheap to fix.
0 0In the optics world zooming isn’t precise or fragile at all. It doesn’t matter if the magnification element shifts when you shoot so long as the elements that shouldn’t don’t.
I can see shooting situations where one is shooting at a target close and then one far away and doesn’t want to change their position to magnify.
It’s not necessary, it’s a luxury, you know, just like a scope in the first place 
0 0thats cool..
I can just see it(pun intended)
“theres nothing in the scope FOV..” Hunter #1 says
“change the channel then,use the remote” Hunter #2 replies
“..Im stuck on this stupid Nature Channel..here I thought it would be more Outdoors Unlimited..but it ain’t..hell it isn’t even Wild America..” grumbles Hunter #1
Hunter #2 laughs
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Surley its just as easy to twist it as it to mess about pressing the switch? seems a bit pointless to me!
Zoom in, stop, enhance!
Now gamers can actually figure out how to operate a scope.
How soon till we start sticking digital cameras on there? The ones with 3.25″ tap to shoot screens
I could see that being useful for an handicapped person. There are a few companies that make rifle rests and triggers and stuff so that anyone can hunt or shoot. That’s still not as cool as the wheelchair with tracks that I saw once. Dude went hunting that morning and grass and mud was still on his chassis when he came for physical therapy; he didn’t have time to take them off his regular tires. It was very neat.
Josh, I think you may be correct. However, optics were once thought of the same way, and now they’re everywhere, even on hard-use military rifles. So this is just one evolutionary feature that we may see more of in the future.
Josh – Its not like Pentax has never made this system before, they’ve worked out the system over 30 years or more of auto focus and zoom cameras.
I want an auto-focus scope
In the optics world zooming isn’t precise or fragile at all. It doesn’t matter if the magnification element shifts when you shoot so long as the elements that shouldn’t don’t.
I can see shooting situations where one is shooting at a target close and then one far away and doesn’t want to change their position to magnify.
It’s not necessary, it’s a luxury, you know, just like a scope in the first place
Sounds like a good gimmick that’ll break and leave you with an inoperable rifle scope. I cringe at most ideas like this – seems like a very precise mechanism that has the possibility of failing, and when it does, you can bet it won’t be cheap to fix.
When playing Unreal Tournament 2, I did kind of like the sniper scope that allowed you to zoom in and out with just some keystrokes.
Seems a halfway useful feature to me, if you’re acting in an overwatch capacity. Low power/wide field of view to look at a broad area; high power to make a precise shot on a target you found at low power; and you don’t have to change your hold on the gun or stop looking through the scope to change between the two.
I’m sure we’ll see it commonly on mall-ninja guns tho.
Can this scope hook up to the right side button on my optical mouse?
thats cool..
I can just see it(pun intended)
“theres nothing in the scope FOV..” Hunter #1 says
“change the channel then,use the remote” Hunter #2 replies
“..Im stuck on this stupid Nature Channel..here I thought it would be more Outdoors Unlimited..but it ain’t..hell it isn’t even Wild America..” grumbles Hunter #1
Hunter #2 laughs