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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    I have to admit I did have the EDG 7 as well but though it was great in many ways the image, to paraphrase Canip was bright but dull. I liked the focuser and the glass in general and had I nothing else to compare with would have been very happy, I'm sure. As it was I sold that and some other...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Never picked one up or been handed one, John, but I can believe you.
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    I must look again tomorrow as your contrast comment interests me. You're not alone commenting on higher contrast in the Leica than the FL. To me the FL contrast is higher as is the SLC8x42 last version that I have. Wonder why. Individual human differences, different generation coatings or maybe...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Comparing and enjoying — good multitasking practice but just enjoying is easier and, well... more enjoyable :) Will still be interested to hear your findings with the Duovid though! Tom
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Yes, it has been a good thread and great to see a significant gang of 742ers flying the flag. Makes me glad I have kept the Leica as well as the good old FL and recently by lucky chance getting back the same Dialyt unit that I sold a couple of years ago. On that by the way it was the work of...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Interesting to read about your focusing experiences with 8x32 and 7x42 UVHD non-pluses, Thotmosis. I had the greatest difficulty with my first pair of 832s but that isn't relevant as they turned out to be a poor sample (this was evident when comparing with the replacement pair and it wasn't to...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Brock, I'm putting a little reply to this in the Nikon thread where you first posted. Not that it will tell you much when you read it! Tom
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Lee, Thank you for your post and these excellent photos. From the quality you must almost certainly have used a tripod. Tom
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    The photo gallery of birds is very good too.
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Tenex, I don't know. It's puzzling since some users do find the UVs tack sharp. Views on contrast seem to vary; I had an interesting and very informative message conversation with Canip on these Leica matters in May 2021 and — if a brief summary doesn't distort the gist of his findings — he...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Great post, jafritten, and informative too. I remember reading that advice from Canip and must try it and yours also. Very nice pictures. Personally I shall resist the 10x42 and see if I can use those steady hold tips to get the best out of my own 10x42 (the SLC which has a heck of a lot going...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Interesting, John. You may have just seen Troubador's reply saying that when he finally got a 7x42 (it was a Meostar) he noticed a difference in that the 7x didn't compress the foreground in the way 8x does i.e. there was much less telephoto lens effect with the 7x. Have you noticed any...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Hi Lee, That fits in with my impression arrived at independently quite recently. The 7x format — I'm going now to use your photographic lens analogy — gives me a kind of calm and easy view a bit like using a 50mm lens when not too close up, which I've come to prefer after decades of using a...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    I'm going to think a bit about that, Tenex, as that's a large part of why I had just about given up on the 7. It was partly the fact that the 8x32 was OK that pushed me to try once more, also knowing there are many here who have found the resolution fine. Will get back to you...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Scott, I must try that. Good advice. With Swaros it's easier because I have found the modern ones all seem properly zeroed at the factory so the same clicks on say an SLC also work perfectly on an EL i.e. you only need to find the right setting on one bin. Does your star method hold up well for...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Great post, Brock. I'll answer it properly in the morning with my own back yard / back garden experiences of today with the newly and at last well-adjusted binoculars. Drivellin' Tom
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    James, I know what you mean about the eye relief. Oddly, I can get on fine with the 8x32 UVHD+ at three settings: eyecups all the way in i.e. not protruding; screwed out just past the first friction point i.e. stop unscrewing as soon as the initial resistance ends; and screwed out a bit further...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    It's more curiosity to know the differences than to have one; I was probably getting carried away while typing. Each 'family' has common features but also differences. I'm interested to hear more about this regarding the 8x42 from others as Tobias Mennle liked all three of the Leicas I mentioned...
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    Finally clicked into place with UVHD Pluses (and still love SLC)

    Just random outpourings really, but with a dangerous follow-up question at the end... ... dangerous to me, that is! Finally, finally after years of faff everything has — literally ;) — clicked into place for me with both the Ultravid HD Pluses I now feel very lucky to have still in my...
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