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Lee: You can't really be serious comparing those Swifts to a Habicht. The Swifts leak like a sieve, as I know from personal experience. Swarovski says the Habicht is waterproof. Simple as that. And from my experience I'd say they are. I don't care what Allbinos say about them. They've been wrong too often.

BTW, the old Zeiss West porros with their rubber seals were also pretty good in that respect.

Hermann

Hermann said:

Lee: You can't really be serious comparing those Swifts to a Habicht. The Swifts leak like a sieve, as I know from personal experience. Swarovski says the Habicht is waterproof. Simple as that. And from my experience I'd say they are. I don't care what Allbinos say about them. They've been wrong too often.

BTW, the old Zeiss West porros with their rubber seals were also pretty good in that respect.

Hermann

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Hermann, since I have never owned a Habicht, while we have owned two Swifts, I don't know how ridiculous it would be to compare the two, but am happy to accept your word for it.

I have looked for a statement from Swaro on their waterproofness but all I can find is the 'safe to immerse to 15 ft' but this isn't really the same thing as what happens when you are focusing the binoculars time and again in heavy rain is it?

However I am happy to be pointed to where Swaro state they are waterproof.

Lee

Peter PS, post 99,
I could mention the brands, but I will not. I went back to the company, we discussed the possible causes, repairs were done and the instruments were checked again both by the company and by me.
Every body can get a flat tire when riding a bicycle and that is also the case for binocular companies.
Gijs van Ginkel