Different means different. It does not mean better or worse, it just means different. Why try to read further? You are right about Meopta can't "diss" either since they make both. In the same vein why would they make Cabela's brand worse? Why would Cabela's stand for that? In all probability Meopta agreed to make their Meostar to whatever differences Cabela's specified. Cabela's sure would not (IMO) try to sell a lesser Meopta simply because of the more than obvious family resemblance.
I agree, "different" is just "different," but in the context of the sentence I quoted it takes on a more subtle semantic shading. Purposely ambiguous, IMO.
If the Meopta rep hadn't interjected the word "most importantly" between the other two differences, it wouldn't have called my attention to the coatings over the difference in rubber armoring or grip, but read the sentence again and see how he/she made a point of distinguishing the coatings.
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Quality, style and comfort wise, they are very similar to the Meostar B1 10.42, but do not have the same rubber armoring, grip and most importantly do not use the same coating as the Meopta brand."
That subtlety might have gone unnoticed by you, but I think I know a ruse when I see one! The coatings may be "different but equal" but that interpretation is left up to the reader. In your case, that's how you interpreted it and also the way you actually see it.
You do make a good point that Cabela would not sell an inferior version of the Meopta, still I wonder what's "different" about the coatings? To your eyes, apparently nothing but to others, there may be a subtle difference that might cause them to favor one bin over the other.
I saw the same yellowish bias in both. The color bias thing is something else that tends to get blown out of reasonable proportion. In spite of a yellow bias (which you notice only for a few seconds and I suspect forget it is even there if you have Meopta/Cabela's binoculars) red still is red, blue is blue, green is green...etc. However, for any pair of human eye balls, there will be either too warm or too cool at some point.
Glad you added that last point about buyers' preferences for "warmer" or "cooler" coatings, that's partly what I meant about wondering what the differences were btwn the two coatings of the Meopta's B1 and Cabela's "Euro".
For example, take two similar bins made by the same company such as the 8x30 EII and 8x32 SE, which some people have described as looking "very similar" "if not identical" except for the EII's wider FOV.
To me, the difference goes beyond the FOV. The EII's image has a warmer color palette than the SE. The EII shows colors, compared to my baseline eyes, that are a tint or two lighter while the SE shows colors that are a shade or two darker.
This seems obvious to me but sensitivity to subtle color differences are not everyone's forte. It's a blessing and a curse. A blessing because I can see subtle variations in color on birds, a curse because I also see more CA than some people.
Yeah, it was a store evaluation. Thanks for pointing out the weaknesses of such a thing. I did take both outside and the yellow bias was still there.
A warm, yellowish bias is a nice thing to have on a bright sunny winter day too. That is why my Promaster ELX ED is my winter pickup bin. For those bright snowy days. A warmer bias can also useful for sorting things (even colorful things) out of heavy foliage too (one reason why hunters tend to like it).
I can understand the advantage of a slight yellow bias for hunters, perhaps even among some birders, particularly in the winter, but from reading posts on BF and other birding forums, some birders prefer pure whites and as little color bias as possible.
I like the red bias of Nikons. Even with the dielectric coatings, Nikon retained some of this "red shift" with the EDG, though more subtly than the LX/LXLs.
Brock
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