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    Group of ducks — drakes and hens up on riverbank

    (1). Long time birders might find this laughable but I am curious to hear ideas about this: Today after too many days indoors and wanting to see what was going on around the R Stour in my part of east Kent I took a walk with my binoculars on the off chance there would be some good nature sights...
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    Who is still viewing through Victory HT 42s?

    Very excited today to have sourced an unsold shop demo Zeiss Victory HT 8x42, bearing in mind that the model was discontinued c.2019 and renewing my acquaintance with it since last using Troubadour's copy in early 2021. As it happens, this afternoon in Devon where I drove 250 miles to pick up...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Just random outpourings really, but with a dangerous follow-up question at the end... ... dangerous to me, that is! Finally, finally after years of faff everything has — literally ;) — clicked into place for me with both the Ultravid HD Pluses I now feel very lucky to have still in my...
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    10x32 EL Field Pro compared against 8x32 same model

    I know 10x32 is not very popular but the only one I have had (all too briefly, a Zeiss FL) was excellent for what I wanted. Now discontinued, I just wondered how the EL 10x32 final model compares with the 8x version. Glare in particular, any kidney beaning or eyecup aspects. I imagine...
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    Chance find.. Dialyt 7x42B

    Funny coincidence this morning. Since thinning out about 40% of my glass two years ago I have not missed any of it much, yet... I had started thinking just the other day how it might have been good still to have the 2 Zeiss A-K glasses to hand that were in among the cull: the 8x42 HT and the...
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    How do you feel about your NL 8x42 a year or two down the line?

    I've not got NL in any format but tried an NL 8x42 out at various distances a year or so ago and was impressed by the colours and almost everything, within the limitations of a shop viewing. The shop does have a magnificent view from near to far distance over colourful gardens and over a mixed...
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    Curio 7x21 - how fiddly compared with Leica 8x20 Trinovid BCA?

    This should be quite an easy one to answer if you happen to have experience with the Leica in the title as well as the new Curio 7x21. The little Leica (I got mine in green with the ribbed metal bridge design in 1993) is cute and petite and very easy to carry round, folded up in its small...
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    Leica Ultravid HD Plus numbering

    Anybody here in the know about Leica serial numbers? The curiosity relates to the current Ultravid models i.e. HD Plus, all bought between 2019 and 2022 from the same excellent stockist. Here goes: I had 8x32 (1641---) bought new in 2019 and then because that one was unusually not up to...
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    Winning comparison points for 8.5x42 EL SV or F/Pro against 8x42 NL-P ?

    As part of a rigorous downsizing evaluation so that I get back more to birding instead of messing with instruments (!), I got sidetracked into some wondering about the following, now that some of you have had good time to settle in with your new NL Pure(s), and I'm hoping some of you are doing...
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    If you are very pleased with NL Pure... ...

    Till this week I had almost never (1 exception) sold or parted with any bins obtained since getting the birds'n'bins bug a few years ago - that's years in single figures. On Monday after some days' break from normal work and activities and with a day or two of walking and viewing for relaxation...
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    Zeiss Victory 10x32 T*FL (prompted by Arthur's thread)

    Sorry to post again... inspired by last weekend's very restorative nature walk and birding and after finding how light and easy and very good the 8x32 FL was — I hardly noticed it was there while walking along, I'd like to find out a bit more about the 10x version, again FL (not SF). Arthur...
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    Superb viewing experience in the field with 8x32 T*FL yesterday

    Keen to post this after turning round a low-ebb and unusually unproductive day of indoor admin to an uplifting and relaxing experience in the field. The weather was of the sort that would make any kind of viewing a pleasure. A bright clear day at a time of year when all is well on its way to...
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    How do you hear EDG said?

    A dealer mentioned Nikon EDG to me recently and he said it so it sounded like edge. Maybe that's how everyone says it but it hadn't occurred to me before. What do EDG users here say? I just say ee-dee-gee assuming it's short for extra-low dispersion glass (as in the ED suffix for similar...
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    Glass types in NL Pure-series

    Apologies if this has been covered already. With threads sometimes reaching a thousand posts it could just be easier to post this as a new question... When some bins are released or updated (e.g. Leica, when Ultravid was tweaked from HD to HD-Plus; and Carl Zeiss, when the HT-series came...
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    SF grey > black changes and also colour/handling/balance thoughts

    I've been reading Roger Vine's extremely positive reappraisal of the Zeiss SFs, which also includes some thoughts on the black SF in comparison with the NL Pure. Interesting that he prefers the NLs for astro but without coming off the fence for birding pretty much ranks them equal and sees why...
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    7x42 FL and 8x42 HT

    Is it just my love affair with Zeiss's good old Abbe-König glass or would I be close to the truth thinking that the two binoculars in the title beat just about everything in the 7 and 8 42 class for resolution/contrast/all factors that contribute to visible sharpness? At first sight Swarovski...
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    Optical differences between 42s SLC 'neu' and final production

    This might be hard to answer as I'm comparing a 7x neu (=new) model with the latest, just discontinued 8x and 10x models. Is it possible to find out what changes or improvements were made in the SLC x42 line between my final production 7x42 SLC and the restyled final production 8 and 10x42...
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    Leica camera (& binocular) manufacture in Midland, Ontario

    For some time Leica manufactured a large part of their camera body and lens line at Midland, Ontario. Dr Walter Mandler was the top optical designer there for many years, having emigrated from Germany to take that role. Were Leitz binoculars ever produced there, and also, does anyone know if...
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    Link to Leica SP and Zeiss AK thoughts/query

    Some of you might be interested to see what you think about something I posted in the Leica forum, as it involves some comparison thoughts / questions about AK prisms as against Leica Ultravid HD Plus glass. Probably an old theme but I'd be interested in any more thoughts beyond the helpful...
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    7x42: evaluating UVHD+ definition against Abbe-König Zeisses

    Utmost heresy about to be uttered but this is a serious question. I am a great Leica fan (appreciator would be a better description) and every time I look through the 7x42 UVHD+ it is a very special view - easy, relaxed, colourful and very three-dimensional. Also contrasty but see below for...
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    Good & bad samples, cherrypicking, etc

    A general set of questions and so no special reason to put them in the Zeiss forum except it was a Zeiss binocular I was just reading about: the 54 HTs, which received a lukewarm reception compared with its 56mm FL predecessors some years ago. On the other hand that has reminded me that I have a...
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    SLC 7x42 arriving today

    Within the next 4 or 5 hours my secondhand but pristine SLC 7x42 Neu should be arriving, courtesy of a Birdforum member. It will be interesting to use these binoculars that have had very favourable reports, judging from earlier reviews and information posted on here recently, especially as I...
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    Very quick surprise hands-on with NL 8x42

    Popping into my local optics shop for nothing more than some fourpacks of AA battery cells I was greeted by the owner who put an NL 8x42 in my hands and invited me to take it out of the shop to try it out in the arcade outside. Nice surprise! As it happens there is a supermarket alongside with...
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    greater contrast and colour depth with eyes away from eyepiece

    Can anyone explain this? It may be something you all know already and I'm just late to the party.. I could have posted this in any make of bins forum but since I first noticed it with the 8x42 SLC that I have been using for the last month or two, the Swarovski forum gets the honour... The...
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    Looking for a 7x42 SLC to go with the recent and now discontinued 8/10x

    Going back in time through Swarovski posts, prompted by the news of discontinuation of 8x and 10x 42 SLC models, I came across this old thread: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=75127 Now I am a bit of a sevens fan -- don't have a Swarovski seven though -- and wanted a bit of advice...
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