Omid
Well-known member
Hello Omid,
Concerning changes in optical performance since the mid 90s, I would offer a summary of the following features:
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Your post #125 was an excellent contribution Holger! Thank you very much for your informative and well-written summary.
I am the guest speaker at a local Safari Club International dinner later this month. I will put together a presentation on the status of sporting optics products in the past 25 years as part of my speech. I will post my slides here once it's ready so you and other members can review them. I will then evolve this into a more substantial presentation for when I meet my optics friends at the Shot Show in January. If the presentations are received well, maybe I will write an article on this topic too
It is a scientific fact that binoculars are "passive" instruments. The performance indicators for binoculars and telescopes are all in the forms of "errors" (chromatic error, astigmatism, spherical aberration, coma, etc.) or "percentages" (e.g. transmission factor). An error can reach ZERO and a percentage can reach 100% and that's the end. Binoculars can not be improved indefinitely in quality. So one may naturally ask Are we there at the summit now or have we been there already since late 90s? Or maybe we will get to the peak in a few years (when Leica introduces the revolutionary Ultravid Super HD ++)?
In any case, its no reason to be sad that there is no more progress possible. Having arrived at the peak of binoculars' quality mountain calls for celebration! Salute to Ernst Abbe, Karl Schwarzchild, Andreas Perger, Christoph vom Hagen, Adolf Weyrauch, Gerold Dobler, Hermann Theisinger, Holger Merlitz, and many others who have contributed or are contributing to further this beautiful field!
Cheers
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