Oh come on Brock. Talk about a return fiend. You tried to return the 10x30 EII I sold you and they were perfect and brand new. Tryin to tell me the contrast was poor and then Henry(Mr Optics) said there was nothing wrong with them. I will bet you drive these optical websites crazy with your returning stuff all the time. They probably have your name on a blacklist. "Brockroller consistent returner"
Psychologists have a word for this, it's called "projection".
But for the record, I never said I saw anything wrong with the contrast with the 10x35 EII, quite the contrary, but when I first compared the 10x35 EII with the 8x30 EII and 8x32 SE at a park, I experienced eyestrain. When I went back and forth with the eights, I was okay, but when I brought the tens into the mix, the eyestrain recurred.
When that's happened in the past, it turned out that the bins were out of collimation, so I thought the 10x EII's might be slightly out of collimation, which is why I contacted you about them. Of course, that's no big deal since Nikon would fix that for $20 and return shipping, but I didn't think that I should be stuck with the cost.
However, the fact that the case didn't have a Nikon emblem on it plus your reputation for flipping bins like IHOP flips pancakes made me suspicious that these might be be refurbs or "gray market" and that perhaps Nikon wouldn't repair them.
Also, when I tested the generous sweet spot, I found that it was "off center," that is, the sweet spot was slightly down and to the right. I thought this might have something to do with the eyestrain. So I consulted Henry about this, and he said that his pair was the same.
I hadn't owned a 10x bin in quite a while and my focus accommodation worsened since having the 10x50 ED a few years back.
I didn't realize that I had to reset the right diopter for different distances unlike the 8x30 EII and the 8x32 SE. After more careful testing the more critical focus for a 10x bin turned out to be the cause of the eyestrain. It still happens if I'm out with the 10x EII and I forget to reset the diopter when I move from close to long distance.
This is less of an issue with the 10x42 SE but there too, I need to reset the diopter to attain the sharpest focus when moving from near to far or vise versa.
But I didn't return the EIIs, did I? The only bins I've returned to either a private seller or a store were grossly defective or were not up to snuff.
One store, two private owners. I've talked about those bins on the forums - the Audubon 804 ED that had been through the ringer, same deal with a "excellent condition" 9.5x44 ED that was falling apart.
For the store, it was two defective 20x60 Pentax PCF Vs (one out of collimation, one had a defective eyecup). The third was the WP version, which just wasn't up to snuff with the optics of the other two Vs. And that's it.
Every other bin I've bought was either later sold to buy another bin or because I needed the money. I don't use optics stores like the library the way you do.
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