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Optical Performance 8x56 FL vs 8.5x42 SV
An awed tip of the hat to you 56mm enthusiasts who won't give a inch on optical performance. I hope one day they'll make an 8x60 fluorite triplet binocular with Ethos eyepieces for you guys. Let it all hang out! But for my favorite thing in the world, spending all day out in rough terrain... -
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Optical Performance 8x56 FL vs 8.5x42 SV
Big is good. I like good. I hate big. Dang, Ron -
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Optical Performance 8x56 FL vs 8.5x42 SV
Henry, I don't have Suiter, but you have described the MTF well enough to understand. That is a good explanation, and thanks. (I have a hunch the 8x56 FL has edged out the 8x42 SV!) Ron -
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Optical Performance 8x56 FL vs 8.5x42 SV
Henry, Short of putting your Zeiss on the vivid-o-meter, that is a good science based explanation of part of its excellence. You say, of your 8x56, "its aberrations are lower. Do we really need to invoke some inexplicable mystery for that?" No, but like I said to RonE, you can't even tell if... -
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Optical Performance 8x56 FL vs 8.5x42 SV
I just can't bring myself to use those winky things, all my teachers would roll over in their graves, and I hope I'm never THAT afraid somebody will get mad at me. Anyhow, old fashioned tongue in cheek, and an underlying assumption of mutual respect, will have to do. RonE and I know we are... -
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Optical Performance 8x56 FL vs 8.5x42 SV
Dear Mr. Number Nazi, It is good to point out that things that can be easily measured, should be. But, it seems to me that one could order a binocular on the basis of your criteria above, and the thing arrive and turn out to be uncoated, and give a dull, dim and lifeless view. But what if... -
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Optical Performance 8x56 FL vs 8.5x42 SV
Right on, Henry. I would even say further that the hellbentness of many reviewers to say which is better leads to specious findings of differences in areas where there is none. The height of this nonsense is probably the comparison of telescope eyepieces. Rarely have I noticed any differences... -
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Optical Performance 8x56 FL vs 8.5x42 SV
There is no substitute for cubic money.