Robert Moore
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This is my first post on the forum and i thought i would share my experience with these two binoculars. I owned the Zeiss first and used it for about a year. The image through the Zeiss is fantastic in its lack of internal reflections and over all cleanliness of the image. It is also vary well color corrected for chromatic aberration. ( purple and green fringes in high contrast situations). When I bought the Zeiss and after using it for the first time I thought it was the best binocular I had ever used or owned and I have owned many. Waaay tooo many!
I recently looked through the Leica Ultravid line and here are my thoughts on the Leica's. I thought I would try a 10x binocular just for kicks and to see if I would like it better than the 8 or 7x that I normally use. I looked at the 10x42 Ultravid and the image was nice but I like more depth of field as my eyes cant accomadate like they used to when I was younger. I am 42. I was really turned off by the color fringing on the 10x42 Ultravid. It seemed excessive to me but my eyes are really sensitive to this. I am also an amatuer astronomer and after years of looking through telescopes my eyes have become vary well trained and that is really a bad thing because when I look through most binoculars it does not do much for me. Enter the 7x42 and 8x42 Ultravid! I bought the 8x42 Ultravid at Bass Pro Shop in Clarksville, IN. This binocular is really really nice.
The Zeiss was also nice but the color rendition never seemed quite right. After comparing it to the Leica I can really see the difference. For instance the reds and yellows in the Leica's are so vivid and true. All the colors for that matter are so pure in the Leica's. I thought that they were in the Zeiss until I compared them side by side. Also even as sensitive as my eyes are to secondary color the 7x and 8x versions of the Ulravid series do not have the problem that the 10x has. I can detect vary little in the 7x and 8x Ultravid with the seven showing the least.
I choose the 8x42 because of the beautifully wide apparent field of view and it seemed to be the sharpest and well corrected. ( flat field ). I am vary impressed with the 8x42 Ultavid and would recommend it to any one who is looking for a top off the line binocular.
I recently looked through the Leica Ultravid line and here are my thoughts on the Leica's. I thought I would try a 10x binocular just for kicks and to see if I would like it better than the 8 or 7x that I normally use. I looked at the 10x42 Ultravid and the image was nice but I like more depth of field as my eyes cant accomadate like they used to when I was younger. I am 42. I was really turned off by the color fringing on the 10x42 Ultravid. It seemed excessive to me but my eyes are really sensitive to this. I am also an amatuer astronomer and after years of looking through telescopes my eyes have become vary well trained and that is really a bad thing because when I look through most binoculars it does not do much for me. Enter the 7x42 and 8x42 Ultravid! I bought the 8x42 Ultravid at Bass Pro Shop in Clarksville, IN. This binocular is really really nice.
The Zeiss was also nice but the color rendition never seemed quite right. After comparing it to the Leica I can really see the difference. For instance the reds and yellows in the Leica's are so vivid and true. All the colors for that matter are so pure in the Leica's. I thought that they were in the Zeiss until I compared them side by side. Also even as sensitive as my eyes are to secondary color the 7x and 8x versions of the Ulravid series do not have the problem that the 10x has. I can detect vary little in the 7x and 8x Ultravid with the seven showing the least.
I choose the 8x42 because of the beautifully wide apparent field of view and it seemed to be the sharpest and well corrected. ( flat field ). I am vary impressed with the 8x42 Ultavid and would recommend it to any one who is looking for a top off the line binocular.
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