Dear Brock
I write to you in my bad English.
My wife was pregnant. a month ago my second daughter was born, her name is Ester
* But you're a seer, also Annalisa has been pregnant for a few weeks.
She is in the first month of pregnancy.
My daughter Ersilia is only 5 years old. She tells me that with the Minox see well, but when I passed the Swarovision with 20mm ER, told me to get a better vision.
I tried with my sun glasses and with the Minox I can not see the whole field of view.. You are right about the construction of the eyepiece and the eyecup. The rubber of the binoculars is not ruined. It was just dirty. I have supported many times on the sand of the lake, during the photo-session..Obviously the aluminum knobs are a bit 'at risk if you rely on the rocks
The shallow thumb indents might not even be there..for me
However, the binoculars are well balanced. Maybe I would have preferred a better knurled focus knob . However, it is a good substitute for binoculars TOP OF RANGE.
ah.... I bought a specimen of Nikon 8x32 SE. I can not live without a Porro Prism, at home
I want to use it to watch the birds of prey. Binocularswith roof prism, in my opinion, suffer a bit 'too much stray light ...I will let you know. I would like to make a comparison with some 8x32: Minox HG,, Kowa Genesis and Zeiss FL 8x32.
Have a nice week end.
Piergiovanni
Pier,
Congratulations! on your second child. If Annalisa is only "a few weeks pregnant," then this photo must have been of your wife:
http://www.binomania.it/wordpress/?p=208
The Bushnell 10x25 looks like a space ship orbiting a planet!
I thought it was Annalisa because she also wears blouses below her 3/4 length sweaters (see pic below). Either that's the latest Italian fashion trend or the two sisters share outfits.
You are right about me being a seer: I see "rolling ball," pincushion, chromatic aberration, color bias, edge distortion, darkening at the edge, flaring, ghosting, etc... yes, you might say I'm a binomaniac!
The other thing about the HG's aluminum knob is that it's shiny and stands out when the sun glints off the surface. Hawks aren't afraid of much, not me certainly even though I yell at them and throw sticks in vain at the tree 50 ft. below them, but they are scared of bright shiny objects. I have pie plates hanging in my backyard. Yesterday, I added weights to them to keep them from twisting in the wind and getting wrapped around the limb they're hanging from, because it was so windy.
The big female hawk ("Big Red") that was menacing the neighborhood squirrels and birds (including trying to attack our friendly, neighborhood Plieated woodpecker, which I managed to thwart!) for nearly two months, finally left, though I don't think it had to do with the pie plates, she's probably laying her eggs. I saw the male today across the street near the edge of the woods and chased him out of the nearby woods. I saw the two of them together one day about a month ago on a limb (the female is significantly larger); she was probably filling him in on where to get them for supper when she was on the nest.
This winter I didn't need the SE to watch birds of prey, I saw "Big Red" only about 10 ft away on the ground with a squirrel in its talons. I did my best owl impression and threw sticks at it, and it released the squirrel, which ran up a nearby tree. The hawk was pretty stunned that I was on her so quickly, but hawks are federally protected so I couldn't kill her even though she was killing the squirrels and birds in my neighborhood, so I let her go.
We also had some kestrels going after mourning doves in our backyard. Unlike "Big Red" who is too huge to fly sideways through the trees, the kestrels are amazingly agile flyers. It was like watching two jet fighters doing maneuvers. I managed to distract the kestrel long enough with my owl screech for the dove to get away, although she was holding her own even before I intervened. The dove was more agile than you'd think from its fat, squat appearance on the ground and it's sluggish walk.
It was a really bad winter for hawk attacks. The worst in all the years I've lived here, probably due to the combination of a long winter and increased pressure from housing development everywhere. Within the next two years, there will be 55,000 more housing units (houses and apartments) built in the area I live, most within a 5-mile radius. That's putting tremendous pressure on the wildlife in the area, because there is absolutely NO provision in the township's master plan about making green space for wildlife or in relocating them. Just clear-cut woodland, lay asphalt and concrete and put up more and more stores, restaurants, student housing, and office buildings.
In my neighborhood, we lost 70 out of the 73 acres of woodland. Within 10 years, the Centre Region (borough of State College and surrounding townships) will be the third largest Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in Pennsylvania. An MSA is "a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area," replacing Harrisburg as the 3rd largest, which is the capital of the state!
The strange thing is that we are located in a rural area several hours from any major city such as Pittsburgh, Philadelphia or Harrisburg. We are surrounded by farmland, but many of those farms are being developed. I moved here to go to school (Penn State) and stayed to get away from the city (I grew up just outside of NYC), but now the city is following me here!
The EDG would probably work for your daughter too. Only two bins in the top tier, SV ELs and EDGs, have enough ER for me to use with sunglasses. I might squeak by with the HTs, depending on the depth of the lens recession and extension of the eyecups above the EP housing, which could lower the 18mm listed ER to 15-13mm usable ER if Zeiss is measuring from the top of the lens to the focal point.
I look forward to your comparison of the roofs with the Nikon 8x32 SE. Of course, Dennis and I already know the SE will blow away all the roofs.
The SV EL will be its toughest competition.
I will have a nice weekend (chasing away the male hawk). You too!
Brock