Solar Cycles
Well-known member
I purchased a pair of 8X32 Endurance ED last week and they arrived on Saturday. First impressions showed the optics were very sharp and colours looked very natural with no obvious signs of biases towards other colours, not being a optics expert but to me I could see no colour fringing though there was a degree of softening towards the edges.
These were the plus points because the overall fit and finish of this model was very poor indeed, with indentations on both front barrels due to the thinness of the armouring. There was also a small bubble on the right barrel roughly where the diopter adjuster connects to the barrel.
I did email pictures to Hawke and they've said that a new pair of binoculars shouldn't look like that and asked me to send them to them to investigate further and presumably exchange them. I wasn't sure whether to just exchange them at the retailer I purchased them from but everything I fancied was above my budget so reluctantly sent them off to Hawke but I don't fancy my chances of getting a cherry pair as the retailer had a look at the rest of his Endurance stock and all of them had the same defect, bar the bubble where the diopter adjuster meets the barrel.
These were the plus points because the overall fit and finish of this model was very poor indeed, with indentations on both front barrels due to the thinness of the armouring. There was also a small bubble on the right barrel roughly where the diopter adjuster connects to the barrel.
I did email pictures to Hawke and they've said that a new pair of binoculars shouldn't look like that and asked me to send them to them to investigate further and presumably exchange them. I wasn't sure whether to just exchange them at the retailer I purchased them from but everything I fancied was above my budget so reluctantly sent them off to Hawke but I don't fancy my chances of getting a cherry pair as the retailer had a look at the rest of his Endurance stock and all of them had the same defect, bar the bubble where the diopter adjuster meets the barrel.