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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    I have looked through both. I have viewed 832 NL several times now and am a fan, if not yet an owner. Looking through and handling both the SFL840 and NL 832, same day, same place, I have reported here I could go birding with either and have a fine day. In fact if i had one and a bud the other...
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Depends. My X lives at 5000 feet, 5 miles from the Mexican border. It snows in winter. Yes, she really wanted to get away from me.
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Do we know this? Haven't been many 10X reviews yet....
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Im with Canip on this one. Cannibalization of other Zeiss models is inevitable, as well as knocking off some share of market for the competition. I suspect the point that Zeiss knows what its doing is also correct. Even if The SFL takes some sales from the SF, I'd bet the whole outcome for Zeiss...
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Seems possible we're potentially talking about a couple different things here Lee. The inspiration for my processing was UT Grad, who I think is not the imagined person you described in #480. He was rather a new poster who wanted help deciding about what bino to buy in a different post, couple...
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Thought about this some more. Among the relatively few regulars who participate here the sentiment “try before you buy” or “go find a pair” are oft offered bits of advice to new folks. But how do we think the new member, innocently hoping for some words of wisdom receives this? Do we imagine...
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    UT I might not use the term sanctimonious, but as we discussed earlier it is an easy thing for folks here to offer it as sound advice, (which of course it is), without considering the real world market conditions that exist as the result of the world wide web and its disruption of old school...
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Kind of overstates what Ive read as well. Front/objective color does not dictate back/ocular color.
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    To those attacks on blatant uninformed generalizations... Was thinking of another, ah... er... uninformed generalization, (maybe conjecture) that might get attacked. These conversations seem to assume Zeiss has made a change to different coatings leading to different observed tint...
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Ahh, yes.
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Henry, as I read the various responses and tried to guess what you might be seeing in summary, it seemed like this became an exercise in seeing not just the differences in binoculars, but a confirmation we each are an important variable. Add in the various equipment to run this experiment, your...
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    That is yellow green left on number two. First pic each about the same
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Yellow green left
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Henry, is the camera a variable?
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    You didnt ask me, but I can predict.... Each year when we summed up the work and described what new and improved thingies were going to the warehouse and next year's catalog, our CEO would say, "Ok, I've listened to you guys all year tell me how great these are and how may sales we'll accomplish...
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Ahh, that would be ...me. 35 years Zeiss 1040B, 3 years EL 1042. Another winter migration down, (7th), my informal bino line count continued. Mostly lower priced models of Nikon, (thank you REI?). A bunch of stuff I cant id by sight. Number one alpha Sawro EL, by far. My first NL, a 1042, not...
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Well, after a bit of back and forth with Google translate, think I got the gist of it. Essentially this seems a quick report of a fun, partial weekend doing a "shootout" with friends and various optics they each brought to share - with not much rigor. Moving from section to section and looking...
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Herman, Im with you, having been puzzled by the enthusiasm for the wider FOVs of the SFs and NLs these last couple years. I need to confess, I dont own a bunch of binoculars, just use the one, (sometimes maybe 2) I own. It seems since I just use that one, at the moment 1042 ELs, (most would say...
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Yes, of course. I agree. Confess I'm just being lazy, even if its only some version of half the tale, when I just use linear.
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Adhoc, Its one o' those days... OK if I try? 1. Different folks see things differently 2. Different folks may see things differently on different days 3. Its nearly impossible to get to the actual place, physical space where the human view equals what was seen through the binos at whatever X...
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Other than actual Angle that’s useful with trig to calculate linear. 8 is bigger than 7? Of course. What do I do with that? 80 is bigger than 70? Well yes. I hope AFOV came from the manufacturer and was measured.
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    talking square area right? Denco used linear so I stayed there.
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    After all how important is 24' at 100 yards?
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Of course.
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    Zeiss SFL 8x40, A Field Review

    Wow, yes! Read it the same way.
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