Hiya all,
I finally got my minox porros last week (my birthday!), and I took them out for a spin at the weekend, so I thought I'd let you know my impressions.
Firstly, They're a little on the heavy side, but not somethings that actually bothered me unless I was trying to use the bins single handed for a length of time. The construction is great.. high quality and you could probably knock nails in with them; solid as a rock. The rubber coating feels very nice and the bins handled great, even with my small hands everything was within reach. The twist up eye pieces had two intermediate stops (and full up/down) and never moved once set. The neoprene strap was really nice and felt comfy at all times.
The picture is outstanding.. really sharp and crisp with very nice neutral colours that seemed well saturated to me. The sharpness fell off a little towards the edge, but in the field it wasn't something I noticed to be honest. The one outstanding feature of these bins is just the HUGE depth of field.. incredible! I just set the focus about halfway out at Rutland water and I could focus birds from the waterline infront of the hide right across to the visitor center on the other side of the lagoon. When walking around I just set a middleish distance and thats it.. done. I hardly had to use the focus wheel at all apart from when I really needed the sharpest image for a bird!
Anyway.. I love them so much, I had to go back on Sunday too!
I love them, what a great beginners pair of bins (which is what I am, so people may disagree with me, but hey.. they're mega for me)!
-Si
I finally got my minox porros last week (my birthday!), and I took them out for a spin at the weekend, so I thought I'd let you know my impressions.
Firstly, They're a little on the heavy side, but not somethings that actually bothered me unless I was trying to use the bins single handed for a length of time. The construction is great.. high quality and you could probably knock nails in with them; solid as a rock. The rubber coating feels very nice and the bins handled great, even with my small hands everything was within reach. The twist up eye pieces had two intermediate stops (and full up/down) and never moved once set. The neoprene strap was really nice and felt comfy at all times.
The picture is outstanding.. really sharp and crisp with very nice neutral colours that seemed well saturated to me. The sharpness fell off a little towards the edge, but in the field it wasn't something I noticed to be honest. The one outstanding feature of these bins is just the HUGE depth of field.. incredible! I just set the focus about halfway out at Rutland water and I could focus birds from the waterline infront of the hide right across to the visitor center on the other side of the lagoon. When walking around I just set a middleish distance and thats it.. done. I hardly had to use the focus wheel at all apart from when I really needed the sharpest image for a bird!
Anyway.. I love them so much, I had to go back on Sunday too!
I love them, what a great beginners pair of bins (which is what I am, so people may disagree with me, but hey.. they're mega for me)!
-Si