black crow
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I just bought a pair of Zen Ray 7x36 ED2 bins and while I'm really impressed with them so far I've noticed something in them and I'm not sure what it is. Please bear with me as I seem to have trouble describing this and don't know the terminology to talk about all of this well.
When I look through a pair of bins the barrels or tubes are black right to the front lenses. But with these Zen Rays there is a little narrow ring or band of what looks like reflection or reflected light right at the edge of where the tubes meet the lenses and goes mostly all the way around the lenses almost like a dim mirror reflecting light. I don't see it much when I'm inside and it's darker and I can also DEcrease it by narrowing the Interpupillary distance slightly. I can INcrease it by pushing my eyes harder into the eye cups. It's a little distracting at times because I'm not used to seeing it in any of my other binoculars. Can anyone tell me what this is?
When I look through a pair of bins the barrels or tubes are black right to the front lenses. But with these Zen Rays there is a little narrow ring or band of what looks like reflection or reflected light right at the edge of where the tubes meet the lenses and goes mostly all the way around the lenses almost like a dim mirror reflecting light. I don't see it much when I'm inside and it's darker and I can also DEcrease it by narrowing the Interpupillary distance slightly. I can INcrease it by pushing my eyes harder into the eye cups. It's a little distracting at times because I'm not used to seeing it in any of my other binoculars. Can anyone tell me what this is?