jaymoynihan
Corvus brachyrhynchos watcher
Do you ever take an older binocular out for some use, that you have not for a long time?
Did that this a.m.
It was the Bausch & Lomb 10x40 Audubon Custom (porroprism circa mid-1980's). It was my first 10x for daytime use. Had not used them for easily 20 years.
It only has a FOV of 5.2 degrees, but what a 5.2 degrees! Flat until literally the edge.
Good eye relief, good close focus, and generally, as far as resolution/sharpness, edged out by my Zeiss 7x42 Classics & Nikon 8x32 SE, kind of.
Not waterproof, and about 30 oz.
These where part of a trio of "affordable" & Audubon "endorsed" porros B&L had in the 1980's.
7x26 (now the Bushnell 7z26 Elite). A reverse -porro design. Still have mine. Best compact (if WP not a factor), there is, yet.
8x36. Excellent also, no longer have.
Kind of made me think again, how manufacturers come out with new models, but improvements are not by leaps and bounds. Some of it, I think, is their need to sell something.
Did that this a.m.
It was the Bausch & Lomb 10x40 Audubon Custom (porroprism circa mid-1980's). It was my first 10x for daytime use. Had not used them for easily 20 years.
It only has a FOV of 5.2 degrees, but what a 5.2 degrees! Flat until literally the edge.
Good eye relief, good close focus, and generally, as far as resolution/sharpness, edged out by my Zeiss 7x42 Classics & Nikon 8x32 SE, kind of.
Not waterproof, and about 30 oz.
These where part of a trio of "affordable" & Audubon "endorsed" porros B&L had in the 1980's.
7x26 (now the Bushnell 7z26 Elite). A reverse -porro design. Still have mine. Best compact (if WP not a factor), there is, yet.
8x36. Excellent also, no longer have.
Kind of made me think again, how manufacturers come out with new models, but improvements are not by leaps and bounds. Some of it, I think, is their need to sell something.
, now days. I Think that is one way they hit the price point they did, at the time with these.
