Nikon HG 8x30 dissection (1 Viewer)

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I suspect most figure that out themselves.

Not everybody knows that trick. Some people try to find the bird by putting the binocular up to their eyes and scanning the area where they last saw the bird. You must keep the binoculars aligned with your eyes. and not move your head after seeing the bird or animal, and then slowly bring the binoculars up to your eyes.

 

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Including whisky drinking bears!
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From the Financial Times: ‘He drank all my whisky’: Romania wrestles with trespassing bears
(Caution: the article includes a photo of a pig recovering after having been clawed by a bear, and another of the bloodied paw of a dead bear.)


John

That sounds similar to the Cocaine Sharks off the coast of Florida that eat the cocaine bundles that the smugglers throw out of their boats and airplanes when the DIA is hot on their trail. I wouldn't want to meet a Grizzly Bear that had been drinking whiskey or a Great White Shark high on Cocaine!😬

 

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In other words, outside of the general volum there is no other difference, what I already sad! But HG 8x30 is smaller than HG 8x42 in all dimensions not only in length, resulting obviously a smaller volume and a lower weight! When we want something smaller and compact we choose 8x30 HG vs 8x42 HG obviously!

An inch shorter makes a noticeable difference in volume and weight because that is a big section of the binocular, and of course your lenses are bigger and heavier in the 42mm. The HG 8x42 is 30% heavier than the HG 8x30, but it pulls in 200% more light. You have to decide what is most important to you. If I lived next to Count Dracula, I know which one I would choose.

 

[dorubird]

Back to the topic. Here is my trusty Nikon HG 8x30

 

[forent]

This light and compact bino is really beautiful and feels great in the hand. Your excellent photos do it justice. I tried everything to make friends with the 10x30 version, but unfortunately I had too many blackouts. What a pity.

 

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This light and compact bino is really beautiful and feels great in the hand. Your excellent photos do it justice. I tried everything to make friends with the 10x30 version, but unfortunately I had too many blackouts. What a pity.

Same here. The eye cups on both the HG 8x30 and HG 10x30 are too short for the eye relief, forcing me to hold the binoculars away from my face to avoid blackouts. It was sad because I really liked them. I have no problem with the HG 8x42, probably because of the bigger exit pupil. Be wary of the HG 8x30 and HG 10x30 if you don't wear glasses.

 

[Scott98]

Vampires have never been seen in Romania, only on TV Instead, there are many bats, big owls, wolves and bears At night I mostly use Habicht 7x42, and for astronomy I use big 70mm and 100mm binoculars with many eyepieces!

Interesting! What 70mm and 100mm instruments are you using? Do you have parallelogram mount for them? I've been considering trying a "big bino" like this.

Another thing about the diminutive 8x30 MHG is the long barrels provide a very comfortable grip for such a small, light bino. That is what jumped out at me right away when I tried them.

 

[dorubird]

Interesting! What 70mm and 100mm instruments are you using? Do you have parallelogram mount for them? I've been considering trying a "big bino" like this.

Another thing about the diminutive 8x30 MHG is the long barrels provide a very comfortable grip for such a small, light bino. That is what jumped out at me right away when I tried them.

I use APM SemiAPO 70mm/45⁰ for "grab and go" nature and astronomy, and big Omegon Acrhromat 100mm/90⁰ only for astronomy.


I use Omegon 100mm on big E-Image GH10L mount for astronomy


Eyepieces pairs:
TeleVue Plossl 32mm (12.5x / 17x)
Zeiss 25mm ortho (microscope), Fujiyama ortho 25mm, Leica 25mm (microscope), APM UFF 24mm,
Baader Morpheus 17.5mm,
TeleVue DeLite 11mm,
Fujiyama ortho 6mm (67x / 91x)

 

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I use APM SemiAPO 70mm/45⁰ for "grab and go" nature and astronomy, and big Omegon Acrhromat 100mm/90⁰ only for astronomy.
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I use Omegon 100mm on big E-Image GH10L mount for astronomy
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Eyepieces pairs:
TeleVue Plossl 32mm (12.5x / 17x)
Zeiss 25mm ortho (microscope), Fujiyama ortho 25mm, Leica 25mm (microscope), APM UFF 24mm,
Baader Morpheus 17.5mm,
TeleVue DeLite 11mm,
Fujiyama ortho 6mm (67x / 91x)
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Nice, dorubird! What Bortle index are your skies where you observe in Romania? I would imagine they are pretty dark if the Count resides there.

 

[Scott98]

I use APM SemiAPO 70mm/45⁰ for "grab and go" nature and astronomy, and big Omegon Acrhromat 100mm/90⁰ only for astronomy.

Very nice! Thanks - so you're using a video pan head for the mount. Looks like a lot of fun. I've used telescopes for many years, and handheld binos, but never anything like this. I have a bino-viewer for my telescope, but it can't do lower power or wide field, the maximum FOV is just over 1 degree.

 

[tenex]

Not everybody knows that trick. Some people try to find the bird by putting the binocular up to their eyes and scanning the area where they last saw the bird. You must keep the binoculars aligned with your eyes. and not move your head after seeing the bird or animal, and then slowly bring the binoculars up to your eyes.

You must also first remove the rainguard, even when it's raining, which can seem confusing at first.

 

[dorubird]

The construction and optics of this Nikon Monarch HG 8x30 exude quality "through every pore." The Japanese know how to make things pleasing to the eye!