MandoBear
Well-known member
I finally succumbed to tempation and bout a pair of Papilio ii 8.5x from Amazon last week. They arrived on Friday and I'm quite impressed with them optically - both at distance and up close.
One thing that does bother me a little though is that I noticed that the outermost lens mounting in both eyepieces appears to be a little loose. It has a tiny amount of fore-aft play in the eyepiece - I mean only about a quarter of a milimetre. I heard this slight rattle from the binoculars, and I thought it might be the strap fixings, so I removed the strap and gave the bins a gentle shake - rattle still there, and I traced it to the outer lens cells of each ocular - just a tiniest bit of movement. Not something I've ever come across before.
It doesn't seem to impair the view through the bins, but even slightly loose optics doesn't seem right to me. Before I return them to Amazon for an exchange, I thought I'd ask the Papilio ii owning community here if they wouldn't mind having a look at their Papilio bins and seeing if their outer ocular lens cells have just the tiniest bit of movent. Anyone have the same thing?
Many thanks,
Michael
One thing that does bother me a little though is that I noticed that the outermost lens mounting in both eyepieces appears to be a little loose. It has a tiny amount of fore-aft play in the eyepiece - I mean only about a quarter of a milimetre. I heard this slight rattle from the binoculars, and I thought it might be the strap fixings, so I removed the strap and gave the bins a gentle shake - rattle still there, and I traced it to the outer lens cells of each ocular - just a tiniest bit of movement. Not something I've ever come across before.
It doesn't seem to impair the view through the bins, but even slightly loose optics doesn't seem right to me. Before I return them to Amazon for an exchange, I thought I'd ask the Papilio ii owning community here if they wouldn't mind having a look at their Papilio bins and seeing if their outer ocular lens cells have just the tiniest bit of movent. Anyone have the same thing?
Many thanks,
Michael