mak said:Steve.
O.k. take out the T* and insert T coating to make it 100% accurate.
Take a look at: http://www.zeiss.de/de/bino/home_e.nsf
click on binoculars, then safari, then down to classics and it states all with T* multilayer coating (8x30 B/A Olive T coating).
I hope that this clears up any misunderstanding.
Perhaps we should return to Canon as this is the Canon thread.
Mak,
you are right. 3 different brochures of Zeiss indicated that there is no T* with the 8x30 olive so I assume this is a quite new feature with this bino. But you are also right to remember that we are here in the Canon forum. I have an Astro Link: http://web.archive.org/web/20000815...urces/testreports/binoculars/0007isbinos.html
My own thoughts about the ISs are those: About 4 years the Canon 15x50 and 18x50 actually are on the market. This is quite a long time for electronical equipment such as digicams for example are and also the IS binos where a microcomputer is working in. The new 12x36 II Canon IS shows the way the evolution of binos like this could go for: Reducing the weight and power consumption. If Canon would give them also more sharpness such as the other top binos of Zeiss, Leica, Nikon and Swarovski have I would buy them. So I have to wait for the successors of the 15x50 and 18x50 or for a reduced price of the recent models.
I have no doubt that image stabilised binos could be very valueable for birding. Best examples are this: seawatching, watching birds under stormy circumstances, birdwatching if it´s not possible to carry a scope plus tripod (a situation I experienced a lot) and last but not least IS binos as an alternative to a scope because watching with both eyes is much more comfortable.
Regards
Steve