DuoVox Mate Pro: A fun but imperfect night vision camera

Smartphones and cameras are better than ever for night shooting, but there are still a lot of caveats. You have to hold your phone still to get decent photos as multiple exposures are added together, and video is out of the question. However, there's an emerging category of cameras dedicated to shooting in the dark using sensitive CMOS sensors and even infrared capability. Some of those models are designed for commercial or military purposes, like SPi Infrared's incredible X27 color night vision camera, but a few new models are aimed at consumers. One is the DuoVox Mate Pro, featuring a Sony STARVIS 2 CMOS surveillance camera sensor that's supposedly a thousand times more sensitive than the latest smartphone sensors.