Hi all of you,
I have been the owner, for about twenty years, of a Porro Prims Swift Neptune 7 x 50 mm binocular.
A binocular very seldom used, up to now.
Why ?
Well, because I was more tempted to use other ones (ex-SSSR Foton 7 x 35 mm mainly, or Helios 8 x 42 mm, those two models with roof prisms, and the last one with phase treatment, etc.).
Yesterday, in the night, after years of no use, I decided to reactivate my Swift Neptune, in an urban context, looking mainly at distant hills immersed in obscurity.
Immediately I felt something but without being able to define it.
Just few minutes ago, I have been giving it a new try, in dailight.
And then the confirmation of the previous night, plus the explanation of this feeling.
This binocular is totally transparent, I cannot define it better.
In other words, what you look at it is totally similar with the nacked eye view of the same thing.
The only difference is that you have zoomed in.
Totally perfect rendition, really.
Juste after that test I put in service the recent (2005) Helios 8 x 42 mm, with upper end surfaces treatment, prisms with full reflection lining and phase compensation.
A pity compared with this so old Porro Binocular.
Incredible, but true.
Except the avantages of sturdiness, compacity and waterproofness, I am asking myself the interest to keep this Helios, compared with the Swift.
One thing is sure: if somebody, somewhere, in my country, is sufficiently "kind" to resell a similar Swift Neptune (or even a Swift Audubon) binocular, made in the 90' and in very good condition, I will not hesitate to buy it (to get a spare one).
And, it is not tomorrow the eve of the selling of my one.
By,
I have been the owner, for about twenty years, of a Porro Prims Swift Neptune 7 x 50 mm binocular.
A binocular very seldom used, up to now.
Why ?
Well, because I was more tempted to use other ones (ex-SSSR Foton 7 x 35 mm mainly, or Helios 8 x 42 mm, those two models with roof prisms, and the last one with phase treatment, etc.).
Yesterday, in the night, after years of no use, I decided to reactivate my Swift Neptune, in an urban context, looking mainly at distant hills immersed in obscurity.
Immediately I felt something but without being able to define it.
Just few minutes ago, I have been giving it a new try, in dailight.
And then the confirmation of the previous night, plus the explanation of this feeling.
This binocular is totally transparent, I cannot define it better.
In other words, what you look at it is totally similar with the nacked eye view of the same thing.
The only difference is that you have zoomed in.
Totally perfect rendition, really.
Juste after that test I put in service the recent (2005) Helios 8 x 42 mm, with upper end surfaces treatment, prisms with full reflection lining and phase compensation.
A pity compared with this so old Porro Binocular.
Incredible, but true.
Except the avantages of sturdiness, compacity and waterproofness, I am asking myself the interest to keep this Helios, compared with the Swift.
One thing is sure: if somebody, somewhere, in my country, is sufficiently "kind" to resell a similar Swift Neptune (or even a Swift Audubon) binocular, made in the 90' and in very good condition, I will not hesitate to buy it (to get a spare one).
And, it is not tomorrow the eve of the selling of my one.
By,
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