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    Dielectric coating vs ED glass ?

    To answer op's question, in thise case I would always take the ED glass rated first. I would always appreciate a clean chromatic aberration free image over a little bit more brightness and slightly better contrast dielectric prism coatings offer. You can get the Bushnell legend M, which is...
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    Binos for India

    Bushnell Elite 7x26, made in Japan by Kamakura, they have a really high image quality, they are renowned for being a traveling binocular.
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    Is it exit pupil size that affects ease of alignment with eyes?

    The design of the eyecups of a binocular (being too short) can cause the shadowing.
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    In forum members opinion which is the best company for making the best binoculars?

    Kamakura koki binoculars, no matter how much they try to stay hidden making oem contract binoculars for the other major companies
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    Hd

    I would imagine that "HD" means that most of all the element groups are achromatic doublets. And I would guess that "ED" means that all element groups are achromatic doublets or higher.
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    What website to order from now?

    I buy everything on Amazon.
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    Sadly, Vortex quality control is all over the place

    I had to email them a copy of my Amazon receipt to them Friday, waiting on a response on them.
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    Sadly, Vortex quality control is all over the place

    It's been a month now and there is no update on my Vortex Vanquish binocular I sent in for warranty, I sent it in March 7. I imagined it would of arrived at my front porch any time the last week, I've read the turn around time could sometimes take 3 weeks.
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    Really high power and really large objectives.

    I have the Celestron Skymaster 25x100 on a tripod, and it's always ridiculously fun to look through it, you can see soo much with it's huge apparent field of view.
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    New Viper HD's

    That's very good information to know.
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    New Viper HD's

    Looks like the Vipers go head on with the Monarch 7's now, in specs. I hope the new Vipers HD's dont suffer from collimation problems like alot of Chinese binos do.
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    Affordable Japanese binoculars

    Yup, I want to know all the models they make for all the companies.
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    Affordable Japanese binoculars

    Does anyone know about any more binoculars made by Kamakura? Those are the ones I am specifically searching wide and tall for.
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    Affordable Japanese binoculars

    I just bought the Bushnell Elite 7x26 after reading Opticreviewers.com writeup about it. Its's coming in a few days.
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    Affordable Japanese binoculars

    I cant find any information about this binocular, I dont know if it's a viable choice, but there's the Vixen Artes 8x42, $430, made in Japan.
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    Is Vortex Optics next??

    Yeah, the move to the Chinese production is truly detrimental, the main lure of the Binocular was the made in Japan quality.
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    Affordable Japanese binoculars

    Awesome! Thanks, I'll take a look into those Nikons.
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    Affordable Japanese binoculars

    I currently have a thing developed for Japanese produced binoculars, I really love their quality, does anyone know of any more Japanese binoculars sub $500 to add to my list? I recently snagged a Vortex Viper 8x28 on ebay, and it is most excellent, it's now the most precious binocular I own...
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    Is Vortex Optics next??

    Absolutley no, Vortex is skyrocketing in business right now, they just moved into their new super huge headquarters in Barneveld a week ago. I believe that Vortex bought all of Eagle optics assets. Their sales to the gun optics segment is in itself massivley profitable.
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    Do you cry when you use binoculars?

    My eyes always seem to shed a significant amount of tears when I mount the eyecups of my binoculars to my eyes, and I just dont seem to know why. I dont have any headaches or eyestrains, my eyes just get really wet when I look through binoculars. I find myself routinely wiping my tears off the...
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    Who is the best binocular maker?

    For now I say Nikon. High quality and affordable, especially the monarch 5 and 7.
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    Daytime benefit of large objectives?

    Larger exit pupils from large objectives also makes it more comfortable to look through, you dont have to keep your head or binocular hold as still.
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    How much FOV do you like?

    At least 57-60 AFOV for me 315 ft/1000 yard for 10x 370 ft/1000 yard for 8x Anything less than 50 afov is not worth the view for me personally. It's tunnel vision.
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    Sadly, Vortex quality control is all over the place

    If you visit my vortex solo first impressions in the Vortex subsection, I talk about how I recently purchased an solo 8x25 model, and one of the occular eyepiece elements was rattling around in the eyepiece. I've returned it. But since then I've purchases a Vortex vanquish on Amazon for my...
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    Vortex Solo 10x25 just arrived this evening

    Another quick shot
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