edwincjones
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any reports yet?
image on zeiss site looks good
edj
image on zeiss site looks good
edj
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So, what's the eye relief on these puppies?
Ed
The "exit pupil distance" is 16.5mm on both the 8x25 and 10x25.
https://www.zeiss.com/sports-optics...cket/victory-pocket-10x25.html#technical-data
Bob
I've never tried one of these compacts with the offset hinge/focus. I wonder if any left-handers have experience of them?
Ed,
So for me, the advantage of Zeiss' single asymmetric hinge only comes from eliminating one unnecessary decision making process from the user interface experience.
Kimmo
Ed,
I read your post as being tongue in cheek (at least a bit), but yes, a lot of people have such a deeply ingrained need for symmetry that they don't even think that double hinged binoculars could be used as Jerry (and Alexis Powell) have suggested. For me, as an owner of a double hinged binocular, it still hasn't dawned how adjusting the inter pupillary distance would be significantly faster or slower either way. What takes time is getting the distance just right, not whether I'm tweaking one hinge or two (which can easily be done simultaneously if you have the right grip).
So for me, the advantage of Zeiss' single asymmetric hinge only comes from eliminating one unnecessary decision making process from the user interface experience.
Kimmo
That's what i was wondering about in my post sometime back - whether lefties are going to find this particularly comfortable. Still, never mind - i probably won't buy them anyway.Some additional advantages of single hinge or asymmetrical unfolding are (1) that the binocular always has a consistent shape at a given IPD, so you can learn to get very good at holding and looking through it efficiently and effectively, (2) on compacts, the asymmetrical unfold or Zeiss design positions the focus wheel under the focus finger (but only for right hand in case of Zeiss) better.
--AP