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  1. K

    I am thinking the new 32 mm alphas from Swarovski and Zeiss are the best birding binoculars you can buy right now.

    I think you summed it up very well here. Very thoughtful and helpful post. There are different configurations to meet different needs. I'm glad we have all the choices we do.
  2. K

    I am thinking the new 32 mm alphas from Swarovski and Zeiss are the best birding binoculars you can buy right now.

    My personal binoculars are Zeiss Conquest HD in 10x42 which reportedly has 93% light transmission per allbinos. I have also had Tract Toric UHD, Vortex Vipers, Leopold Mojave, Alpen Teton, and a bevy of lower quality binoculars. A colleague let me look at wolves through his top end Kowa's...
  3. K

    I am thinking the new 32 mm alphas from Swarovski and Zeiss are the best birding binoculars you can buy right now.

    10x42. I prefer the extra magnification. If I were to recommend a binocular purely for birding, I would say 8x42 but I do a lot of other wildlife viewing where 10x is better. By the way, 10x is also more common among my wildlife colleagues as well.
  4. K

    I am thinking the new 32 mm alphas from Swarovski and Zeiss are the best birding binoculars you can buy right now.

    I guarantee I have hiked more with my binoculars as a wildlife biologist than most birders. I spent a summer hiking on average 12-15 miles every day doing raptor and woodpecker surveys for the Forest Service. I spent another two summers doing point counts in Arkansas through oak-hickory forest...
  5. K

    I am thinking the new 32 mm alphas from Swarovski and Zeiss are the best birding binoculars you can buy right now.

    If nobody ever birded in low light conditions then 32mm might be ok. Unfortunately, birds are most active in the early morning, then theres under heavy canopy cover, cloudy days (I live in the pacific NW), and evening. Plus if you are using your binoculars for other wildlife then early morn and...
  6. K

    I am thinking the new 32 mm alphas from Swarovski and Zeiss are the best birding binoculars you can buy right now.

    North central Idaho, Sportsmans Warehouse.
  7. K

    I am thinking the new 32 mm alphas from Swarovski and Zeiss are the best birding binoculars you can buy right now.

    I dont have any problem with someone saying that 8x32 nl pure are vey nice binoculars and a good choice for birding. I recently went to a sporting goods store and spent some time looking through a bevy of top tier glass. They had NL, EL, Victory sf, Leica Noctuvid, Conquest hd, vortex razor, and...
  8. K

    I am thinking the new 32 mm alphas from Swarovski and Zeiss are the best birding binoculars you can buy right now.

    Well thats nice for you, as you dont find the tradeoffs worth it. Thats fine, but where I have concerns is where you're charecterizing the 32mm as best there is for birding, which I dont agree. 32s simply dont perform better than 42s in a number of metrics. Similarly, 42s dont perform as well as...
  9. K

    I am thinking the new 32 mm alphas from Swarovski and Zeiss are the best birding binoculars you can buy right now.

    You might think hey its only 10mm difference (32 vs 42) but what you have to realize is that a 42mm lense has a a 72% increase in area compared to a 32mm. That really matters, more than just low light performance. The new alpha bins are incredible, and might be nice in 32mm binocular, but...
  10. K

    I am thinking the new 32 mm alphas from Swarovski and Zeiss are the best birding binoculars you can buy right now.

    I have to respectfully disagree with this thread. So many optical properties are controlled by aperture of the objective lens. Angular resolution, exit pupil, relative brightness, twilight factor, light gathering, low light perormance, etc. I tend to recommend as much aperature as you can...
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