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  1. Peter Audrain

    Harpia 95: A Review on a Scottish Island

    I don’t want anyone to feel ganged up on. I know I have indulged in some free invective directed at ‘Big Optics’ in another thread. It’s nearly impossible to never post while irritated. The entire Internet, famously, strips away nuance, ratchets up opinions to extremes, and values certainty...
  2. Peter Audrain

    Harpia 95: A Review on a Scottish Island

    I'm new here and don't know what kind of tone is usual, much less how the various relationships among forum members with thousands of posts have played out over time. But I don't, in general, think that posts about other people's forum posts that dismiss them as valueless or read as personal or...
  3. Peter Audrain

    Harpia 95: A Review on a Scottish Island

    It would be great if everyone could relax a bit. So far as I can tell, no one's trying to stop anybody else from writing their own review of any piece of optical equipment they would like, and no one is trying to stop anyone else from expressing whatever opinions they feel like expressing. Which...
  4. Peter Audrain

    Harpia 95: A Review on a Scottish Island

    Everybody relax!
  5. Peter Audrain

    Harpia 95: A Review on a Scottish Island

    (Maybe ‘slack’ is the best English equivalent for the word you have in mind? Like looseness in a rope that isn’t strung taut.)
  6. Peter Audrain

    Harpia 95: A Review on a Scottish Island

    This sounds like Down East Maine, cubed. I basically can’t wait to go. Even the hail sounds great, though I wouldn’t necessarily want to be sailing there. Thanks so much for ‘taking us along’ in this thread.
  7. Peter Audrain

    Harpia 95: A Review on a Scottish Island

    That hail sounds life-threatening! The Hebrides: Life In The Raw!
  8. Peter Audrain

    Harpia 95: A Review on a Scottish Island

    Henry, and everyone else, This is absolutely fascinating! I especially liked, "the S2 can’t be better than a perfect 82mm scope." (In every area of expertise, there are things that, left unsaid, make a big impression on people who know that they should have been said. I write and read many...
  9. Peter Audrain

    Harpia 95: A Review on a Scottish Island

    This is frustrating! Now I can’t wait for these innovations to ‘trickle down’ and become part of the way all scopes are made. Keeping the apparent field of view the same throughout the zoom range, putting the magnification and focus controls together on the barrel, having such a whopping great...
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