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Quick 8x32 SV Question (1 Viewer)
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Jason Bugay Reyes
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I checked mine, the 8x32 is smaller than the 10x42 SV
brocknroller
porromaniac
I have deep-set eyes, and Swarovski's eyecups fit my eye orbits better than any other bins regardless if it's the 8x32 EL, 8.5x EL, 8x30 SLC or 10x42 SLC. The cups aren't deep and they taper at the ends - a good example for other companies to follow (though Swarovski would probably sue them if they did).
Btw, nice avatar, horukuru.
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Kammerdiner
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And for your next trick you will toss your bins through two burning hoops whilst juggling two skunks!!! :-O
Lee
HighNorth
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Cool! What accounts for the difference in the armour colouring of the two bins?
HN
What type of eyecups are those mnich? They look intriguing.
Hello Sako,
It started from the fact that a few years ago I bought the previous model EL, having already Ultravid. If there were no comparison, surely everything would be fine, maybe....
Unfortunately, with longer stays with EL in the fields, I came back with a sore skin around the eyes, which is not experienced with ULTRAVID.
I decided to do something about it. I started to play with original Swarovski shells, trying to get optimal shape for my needs, honing eyecups manually.
It's a bit laborious, but it gives good results in the comfort of a long observation.
In my newer model EL SV also used the original eyecups, to reduce their diameter, and forming a shell in the likeness of Ultravid, because this shape is optimal for me.
regards
It started from the fact that a few years ago I bought the previous model EL, having already Ultravid. If there were no comparison, surely everything would be fine, maybe....
Unfortunately, with longer stays with EL in the fields, I came back with a sore skin around the eyes, which is not experienced with ULTRAVID.
I decided to do something about it. I started to play with original Swarovski shells, trying to get optimal shape for my needs, honing eyecups manually.
It's a bit laborious, but it gives good results in the comfort of a long observation.
In my newer model EL SV also used the original eyecups, to reduce their diameter, and forming a shell in the likeness of Ultravid, because this shape is optimal for me.
regards
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Kammerdiner
Well-known member
HN,
As I understand it, Swarovski changed the armor formulation a few years back. I think Jan van Daalen filled in the details at the time. My 8.5 SV has the old armor, the 8x32 SV has the new.
The newer armor is a little less yellow-green (more blue-green), has less sheen and a little more grip. It strikes me as a nice improvement. That 8x32 has the best feeling armor of anything I have.
Mark
Rathaus
Well-known member
El 8x32
El SV 8.5x42
Fuji 7x50 (a third or quarter the price?)...if you're lazy you can just peruse the view from twelve inches out. My semi blind 90yo grandmother is astonished with the easy/lazy eye candy view of the fujis.
If you have massive, deepset, wide set potato eyeballs....fussy eyes....beady eyes....any eyeballs.....The Fujinon has the Godzilla of eye cup/eyepieces.
Having uttered all that nonsense....the Habichts, probably my favourite binos, have puny and fussy little eye cupsB
El SV 8.5x42
Fuji 7x50 (a third or quarter the price?)...if you're lazy you can just peruse the view from twelve inches out. My semi blind 90yo grandmother is astonished with the easy/lazy eye candy view of the fujis.
If you have massive, deepset, wide set potato eyeballs....fussy eyes....beady eyes....any eyeballs.....The Fujinon has the Godzilla of eye cup/eyepieces.
Having uttered all that nonsense....the Habichts, probably my favourite binos, have puny and fussy little eye cupsB
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Thanks for posting that mnich. I'll try it as soon as I can obtain a spare set of eyecups.
I don't find my 8x32 SV eyecups very comfortable.
brocknroller
porromaniac
Nice job! I find Swaro eyecups comfortable, but your redesign looks even better. My chief complaint about eyecups is that most are not rounded at the edges, which makes a better fit for your eye orbits (except birders with faces like bulldogs where a flat eyecup would work just as well).
You should go into the aftermarket eyecup modification business. If I ever buy a Swaro and find the eyecups gouge my eyes after using them for long periods, I will send the eyecups to you for beveling. However, may I suggest a company name with less consonants? Mnich Aftermarket Eyecup Service is hard to pronounce.
Brock
HighNorth
Well-known member
However, may I suggest a company name with less consonants? Mnich Aftermarket Eyecup Service is hard to pronounce.
Brock
I suggest "Pimp your Eyecups!"
HN
brocknroller
porromaniac
El 8x32
El SV 8.5x42
Fuji 7x50 (a third or quarter the price?)...if you're lazy you can just peruse the view from twelve inches out. My semi blind 90yo grandmother is astonished with the easy/lazy eye candy view of the fujis.
If you have massive, deepset, wide set potato eyeballs....fussy eyes....beady eyes....any eyeballs.....The Fujinon has the Godzilla of eye cup/eyepieces.
Having uttered all that nonsense....the Habichts, probably my favourite binos, have puny and fussy little eye cupsB
Your 90yo grandmother either must be in great shape or she must "eats her spinach" if she can hold the 3 lb+ Fujis up look enough to look through them!
You are correct about the oversized eyecups. Even though the view is alpha quality for a fraction of the price (ditto for the SE and EII), when I add in the cost of plastic surgery to have my eye orbits bored out to accommodate the eyecups, the alphas would cost less.
Brock
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