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black crow
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I don't do facebook
BruceH
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Frank .... I am not a Facebook member and never plan to be, but I was able to view the photo. It is an artist rendering of what I assume to be the upcoming Zen-Ray Prime HD. The caption from Zen-Ray says "It's coming!".
bh46118
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Stet
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I am a Facebook member and was very happy to see this on my news feed first thing this morning. Would have been more excited if it was a real picture instead of a computer generated model, as it would indicate that things were moving along. But better to be patient and get a great bin than rush it and end up with problems.
John
John
Kammerdiner
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Mighty BIG eyecups. :eek!:
Unless that's actually a 32mm, I'm guessing quite a few folks won't get their schnozzolas between those cups.
Unless that's actually a 32mm, I'm guessing quite a few folks won't get their schnozzolas between those cups.
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eitanaltman
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to get the promised wide, flat field I would assume it would have to have a bigger ocular.
I won't read too much into the renderings though.
I won't read too much into the renderings though.
spacepilot
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Charles talked to me about the Prime HD eyepiece earlier this year. If I remember correctly, the outer most surface of the eyepiece is about 26mm, and the internal lenses in the eyepiece are up to 29mm in diameter.
looksharp65
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It could mean it will have a similar problem as the larger Kowa Prominars, namely that the eyecups inner edges come so close to each other that some will have problems getting close enough to the bin.
black crow
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Looks like binoculars all right.
Unless the eyecups are bigger than the objective end, this shouldn't be a problem. My ED2 has 56mm minimum IPD, which is limited by the objective lens enclosure, which comes to rubber to rubber contact. Otherwise, it could have gone all the way to 52mm? From the picture, it's hard to tell. But I doubt its eyepiece will be bigger than 42mm objective.
looksharp65
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We'll see. The Prominar design isn't flawless in this regard.
http://www.birdforum.net/reviews/showproduct.php/product/240
http://www.birdforum.net/reviews/showproduct.php/product/240
vop
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YES!
Stet
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Here is a copy and paste of Charle's comments on Facebook last night:
"They will be available for pre-order later this month with delivery in May. We will offer a special to our loyal customers who have been waiting patiently for this product during the pre-order period. From what I have seen and from independent third party lab testing, this will be one amazing product. -Charles"
"They will be available for pre-order later this month with delivery in May. We will offer a special to our loyal customers who have been waiting patiently for this product during the pre-order period. From what I have seen and from independent third party lab testing, this will be one amazing product. -Charles"
Chosun Juan
Given to Fly
Spacepilot,
26mm OD
29mm ID
Is this the much vaunted Tardis eyepiece design ?! :-O
I presume you were talking about the outermost ocular lens being 26mm! (which is a good couple of mm greater than the ED3)
I wonder what sort of OD of the eyepiece itself this translates to?
May ....... 2 months away :-C
Chosun :gh:
Bob A (SD)
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Right here Frank. No way any social network with their privacy and other problems for me!
Steve C
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No Facebook for me either. I can see why it is useful as advertising and contact, but the lack of privacy issues are so astounding to me I can't see why anybody would use it, although I can see I'm a monority here probably.
brocknroller
porromaniac
Yeah, that's the first thing I noticed too. They brought the eyecups right out to the edge of the barrels. Similarly, the SE's eyecups are as wide as the occular housing.
In most case, eyecups don't need to be the same width as the housings. This is certainly true for the SE where an indented eyecup such as Docter uses would help those of us with "Euro noses" and Frank with his beady eyes.
Brock
