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Swarovski NL 14x52 and SLC 15x56 - a brief comparison
Canip, I read your OP eagerly as soon as it was posted. The comparison was and is really useful to me. I may be one of those who pressed you for it! Now visiting the thread to read it again am surprised to find I have not written in to say: Thank you! -
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Brief review of Meopta Meostar B1 HD 10x42 with comparison against Zeiss Conquest HD 10x42
Jackjack, thank you for bringing clarity to comparison issues I have been wondering about for a long time. (By clarity there I don't mean your photos! Not criticizing them, as I don't have the experience and knowledge to do so, but am not used to bino image comparisons through photos, so I... -
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What's the latest on Meopta?
Here in the linked post is more useful information on the current position of the Meopta co. -
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AX Visio from Sabah, Borneo
Thank you, J.B.R. Just wonderful. Amazing. Terrifying. I see 3 stages in the relationship between this forum and such devices. Stage 1. The present. Most posts on this forum on them show some resentment to them, most of these again emotional or at least partly irrational. Stage 2. Very... -
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Conquest HDX
There's been a lot of praise here for the Conquest HD 8x32. I would much like to know users' opinions on the Conquest HD 10x32. Thanks. -
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On the occasion of the HDX, thinking about it …
Locking a thread halts bona fide comments and questions on its topic. Is it the only way? It is sad when a decent forum turns into a reflection of the madness of the world of today where brazen wrong is not checked as one would wish but flourishes. -
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On the occasion of the HDX, thinking about it …
Seems the Zeiss people carefully designed the HDX to produce maximum entertainment on this forum. Looks like it's not being much of a success in other ways. Seriously, though, the OP in the first post does sum it up by that word success, and NDHunter/Jerry nicely in post #35 above with a few... -
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New GPO PASSION HD 15x50
GPOSurujh: The field width figure given, only in imperial, i.e. non-metric, units, in GPO's consumer texts, e.g. in the GPO USA website, and hence the angular FOV calculated from it, are incorrect, as pointed out above, significantly overstated, and can mislead a customer, significant not just... -
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New GPO PASSION HD 15x50
• Now available in the US! Very much looking forward to reviews, here in BF or elsewhere, as the configuration is a sweet spot for me, and I have no way to access binoculars before buying. • The FOV error (please see above) continues in GPO's data, at the retailer's website that I just visited... -
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On the occasion of the HDX, thinking about it …
Thank you, Canip. I don't think the Zeiss website text for HD had referred to a flattened field: I found a way to get to the texts for the individual HD models in their site even now but not for the HD range. Also, I don't recall any reviews, or descriptions by other parties, of the HD... -
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On the occasion of the HDX, thinking about it …
Please still excuse 2 cts further on this particular Off topic. The fantastic, eccentric, British, make Bristol, no more, was partly "hand made." Refined and all that, but a riddle among garage folk went, what are the two man-made things on Earth you can see from the Moon, and the answer, the... -
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On the occasion of the HDX, thinking about it …
Zeiss in their website state "FieldFlattener technology" (spelt thus) as a feature of Conquest HDX. Does this refer to an optical design not found in Conquest HD? -
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NL's are simply the best!
Yes, of course, I do know that, and have read much that you have posted in this forum. I was too hasty in my text, sorry! I should have said: a superb brief clarification of some points I (personally) have been wondering about in comparing the best binoculars. Really kind of you to offer to...- adhoc
- Post #47
- Forum: Binoculars
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NL's are simply the best!
Post #30 is a superb summary of the pros and cons of the best binoculars. Thank you, Jackjack, again, from one who is not able to try them out.- adhoc
- Post #37
- Forum: Binoculars
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Product Review: The Sky Rover Banner Cloud 8 x 42 Binocular
Sancho, what reason/s for this change do you see? Thanks. -
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Conquest HDX
Am surprised no-one has yet responded on the second video linked by ArchStanton. Pete at Optics4Birding gives a fine summary of HDX vs HD. Except that the explanation of the relation between field flattening and outer-field sharpness could be better, it very usefully clarifies a lot of points... -
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Product Review: The Sky Rover Banner Cloud 8 x 42 Binocular
Patudo, a bent to birdwatching, in many ethnic groups, and this is broadly in regard to nations but equally to different ethnic groups within one nation, is cultural, as well as, in fact I'd think more than, economic. In the two countries you mention (vs your own) economics is not the factor... -
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Product Review: The Sky Rover Banner Cloud 8 x 42 Binocular
Sancho, cheer up. When that nuclear device gets you, all will be instantaneous, there will be no time to think that, or anything else. You calculate one year from now. You forgot China, N. Korea, Pakistan, India. We may need to shorten that prediction. So I say, go for the NL. During that time... -
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The APM 6.5x32: Mini review
Hermann, thank you for your thorough and very useful response. It was more trouble to you than my query deserved, which I should have pre-empted by elaborating a bit more! Your last two paragraphs are the most useful to me. I wished to know how far the best 6.5xs had improved, vs 7xs of varying... -
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The APM 6.5x32: Mini review
Thank you for all that, Hermann, also Yarrellii! H., Y., others: Has this instrument shown more detail, or shown very fine detail better, than a 7x which you have used alongside, in a side-by-side test, handheld, in the field, done by you? (a) I have noted the 7xs named in the thread so far... -
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Visual acuity vs age
Thank you, Mono and Ignatius, also Maljunulo. Without patiently trying to wade through, I looked among the jargon and learned explanations in the abstract of the paper and in the posts of the thread for the terms ‘acuity’ and ‘MTF’ and found them used only indirectly, that is, not in an...- adhoc
- Post #33
- Forum: Binoculars
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Visual acuity vs age
Could someone please say—from that paper, which you have been willing and able to read and understand adequately for this matter, or knowledge from elsewhere: (a) How does visual acuity change with age (subject of thread title!)? (b) Anything quantitative known? (c) Is it only, or mostly, to do...- adhoc
- Post #27
- Forum: Binoculars
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The new ZEISS Conquest HDX Binoculars - The ideal premium all-rounder
The wait for a useful comparison of HDX vs HD goes on. Until we see a side-by-side test (in BF or elsewhere) could someone please say: Have Zeiss (themselves) anywhere clearly stated, or even implied, that HDX is optically improved, at all and in any way, except for outer-field corrections... -
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Is Banner Cloud(SRBC) 8 x 42 APO really that good!?
Jackjack, thank you very much. To me, wonderful comparisons and information here, most useful of many excellent comparison posts by you. Am now not so keen on SRBC after some too hasty enthusiasm! Was anyway beginning to worry about QC. Will now also look at other models again for my 8x42 which... -
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Nikon WX 10x50
JanPB, your info is very interesting, or, more precisely, should be after (if) I do some homework. Now you know how Einstein's brain was exercised and toned for his discoveries. I guess with German compound-words it would be more spectacular. After this you can sort out the complexity of the...