Saw flare in the SV 8x32 (1 Viewer)

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Six Point Five

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• Apr 15, 2015

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Finally i saw some serious flare in the SV 8x32.
This morning i stopped by a puddle of water in a depression 3 meters bellow me, the sun was low at sunrise, bright, and was reflected in the puddle. I tried to check for snipe and sandpipers right towards the sun, and my FOV was right in between the light reflected by the water and just bellow the sun.
Half of the field of view was covered by golden glare and haze.
Interestingly, this happened within a very narrow cone of light, or angle. As soon as i moved the binoculars by just a little, the haze disappeared. Even with the haze, i was able to see very well 2 snipe.
Very minimal, very narrow angle. After moving away from the reflecting puddle, no more glare, even when looking under the sun.

 

HighNorth

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• Apr 15, 2015

• #2

Oh praise the Lord! He's seen the light! :-O

 

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SteveTS

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• Apr 15, 2015

• #3

Two grand well spent then ?

 

oetzi

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• Apr 15, 2015

• #4

There is no such thing as perfection

Look what I did to mine.

 

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Six Point Five

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• Apr 15, 2015

• #5

HighNorth said:

Oh praise the Lord! He's seen the light! :-O

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Nothing is perfect, but a cold beer helps. More cold beers help more.
I like the SV very much. The very next chance i get of a sunny morning i will go back with the old EL to the same spot at the same time of day, stop in the same place, look at the same thing, and see what happens.

In reality, in many years of using binoculars i have rarely had such viewing angles with two sources of bright light bracketing my field of view.

 

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gulf1263

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• Apr 15, 2015

• #6

If you like looking at flares then look at the flares used during military exercises or flares from oil and gas fields.
Just joking, any pair of bino's will show CA/flare given the right conditions.
My Leica, Swaro and Zeiss all do...simply the laws of physics.
Glass and coatings at the price level of even high end consumer optics can only do so much.
The military with much larger budgets sometimes are able to buy glass with less flare but there still is some.
Art

 

brocknroller

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• Apr 16, 2015

• #7

gulf1263 said:

If you like looking at flares then look at the flares used during military exercises or flares from oil and gas fields.
Just joking, any pair of bino's will show CA/flare given the right conditions.
My Leica, Swaro and Zeiss all do...simply the laws of physics....
Art

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The Law of Veiling Glare (from "The Feynman Lectures on Physics")

The angle of incident light is equal to the size of the reflected glare.

A. Feyn Man

 

HighNorth

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• Apr 17, 2015

• #8

Six Point Five said:

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Nothing is perfect, but a cold beer helps. More cold beers help more.

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Cold beer is nice, but a 1983 Port Ellen 27 y.o. Single Malt is also nice! :t:

...and 6.5 is a great caliber by the way: good for moose hunting!

 

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Six Point Five

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• Apr 18, 2015

• #9

HighNorth said:

6.5 is a great )

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{whisper} sht, we are not allowed to talk about that here. Yes it is. The best thing ever invented by a committee.

 

HighNorth

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• Apr 18, 2015

• #10

Six Point Five said:

{whisper} sht, we are not allowed to talk about that here. Yes it is. The best thing ever invented by a committee.

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We're not all hippies in here ya know!