Zeiss Warranty
Man, is a company's warranty reflective of the confidence they have in their product?? Their warranty on all of their binoculars is two years. Big deal.
From reading various reviews, I'm not sure that their Terra ED Chinese-made line is worth the dough over some others out there. I'm about to try the Athlon Midas UHD (generation 1), which are on their way to me for ~$200, and the Carson 3D ED, a model from the Amazon Warehouse, with supposedly a cosmetic blemish on the front for ~$160 (and Carson said they'd fully warranty it). Both get very high marks, and higher marks than the Zeiss Terra ED in some circles. We'll see. But the 'open box' Terra ED for $300, given that they don't review better than the above two (although slightly better than the Monarch 5 (and the Monarch 5 would cost me $40 less than the Terra, with a better written warranty - perhaps in practice it may be different) doesn't make the Terra seemingly a great deal.
It's funny that I'm finding better deals currently on 8x42 models than 8x32 ones. The above mentioned Kowa 8x32 bins don't have ED glass, whereas the 2nd generation models do. The 2nd gen models go for about $80 more new (not 'open box').
Man, is a company's warranty reflective of the confidence they have in their product?? Their warranty on all of their binoculars is two years. Big deal.
From reading various reviews, I'm not sure that their Terra ED Chinese-made line is worth the dough over some others out there. I'm about to try the Athlon Midas UHD (generation 1), which are on their way to me for ~$200, and the Carson 3D ED, a model from the Amazon Warehouse, with supposedly a cosmetic blemish on the front for ~$160 (and Carson said they'd fully warranty it). Both get very high marks, and higher marks than the Zeiss Terra ED in some circles. We'll see. But the 'open box' Terra ED for $300, given that they don't review better than the above two (although slightly better than the Monarch 5 (and the Monarch 5 would cost me $40 less than the Terra, with a better written warranty - perhaps in practice it may be different) doesn't make the Terra seemingly a great deal.
It's funny that I'm finding better deals currently on 8x42 models than 8x32 ones. The above mentioned Kowa 8x32 bins don't have ED glass, whereas the 2nd generation models do. The 2nd gen models go for about $80 more new (not 'open box').