I returned to the same forest with the clear intention of photographing a deer. The binoculars chosen this time were the Habicht 7x42, because his porro 3d effect makes it easier to search among the thickets in the forest.
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The color saturation of the Habicht is very much in line with reality. This Habicht has the highest color accuracy of the binoculars I've tested.
Two examples of chromatic behavior in different chromatic situations:
1- When I observe in the forest, where a single shade predominates, and the frame is characterized by a chromatic monotony, but also by many situations of high contrast, shadow/light transitions, these binoculars bring out the shaded areas brighter, the gray palette being richer, somehow highlighting the monotonous chromatic character of the image. In this situation, binoculars with a slight shift in color tint (yellowish/green like Victory SF 10x42 or red like Ultravid 8x20 and MHG 8x30) may appear more saturated and spectacular in color than Habicht, but not in accordance with the chromatic reality and with the multitude of shades!
2- But if there are spots of vivid and different colors in the visual field, Habicht renders these colors very vibrantly and accurately. When I saw at 200m a group of people dressed in strong and very different colored clothes, I was speechless by the beauty of the colors. The colors had that spectacular "pop out", but at the same time, preserving the naturalness and tonal balance between them. This is only achieved due to the very high but homogeneous percentage of light transmission along the entire curve of wavelengths!
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Also the well-defined Habicht FOV is a bonus and it's superb for the forest and I don't feel it small at all. Because I wear glasses, to gained eye relief I unscrewed the eyepiece cups and replaced them with rings cut out of the sponge (the folded cups still took 2 mm of eye relief)
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Returning to that day, after searching in the greatest possible silence (at every step I was careful not to crack a branch) I chose a place in an orchard with a symmetrical perspective! Here I installed my camouflage photo blind and sat in great silence waiting for the deer. Several days before, I observed the behavior and more frequent transit areas of the deer, so the ambush site was carefully chosen.
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While I was quietly waiting for the deer, I noticed a lot of curious birds coming around me (great spotted woodpecker, chiffchaff, long tailed tit, great tit, common buzzard)
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After about 2 hours of waiting, a young deer shyly appeared in the frame. This is the picture which I prepared several days in a row and I am very happy with it. It is exactly what I wanted! But not so much my patience and preparations were the most important in the making of this picture... but divine providence! Because this deer could not pass there at all! On top of that, as he passed by, he headed towards me. What were the chances of him staring straight into my lens? This fraction of a second is a divine gift!
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