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This might be hard to answer as I'm comparing a 7x neu (=new) model with the latest, just discontinued 8x and 10x models. Is it possible to find out what changes or improvements were made in the SLC x42 line between my final production 7x42 SLC and the restyled final production 8 and 10x42...

For some time Leica manufactured a large part of their camera body and lens line at Midland, Ontario. Dr Walter Mandler was the top optical designer there for many years, having emigrated from Germany to take that role. Were Leitz binoculars ever produced there, and also, does anyone know if...

Some of you might be interested to see what you think about something I posted in the Leica forum, as it involves some comparison thoughts / questions about AK prisms as against Leica Ultravid HD Plus glass. Probably an old theme but I'd be interested in any more thoughts beyond the helpful...

Utmost heresy about to be uttered but this is a serious question. I am a great Leica fan (appreciator would be a better description) and every time I look through the 7x42 UVHD+ it is a very special view - easy, relaxed, colourful and very three-dimensional. Also contrasty but see below for...

A general set of questions and so no special reason to put them in the Zeiss forum except it was a Zeiss binocular I was just reading about: the 54 HTs, which received a lukewarm reception compared with its 56mm FL predecessors some years ago. On the other hand that has reminded me that I have a...

Within the next 4 or 5 hours my secondhand but pristine SLC 7x42 Neu should be arriving, courtesy of a Birdforum member. It will be interesting to use these binoculars that have had very favourable reports, judging from earlier reviews and information posted on here recently, especially as I...

Popping into my local optics shop for nothing more than some fourpacks of AA battery cells I was greeted by the owner who put an NL 8x42 in my hands and invited me to take it out of the shop to try it out in the arcade outside. Nice surprise! As it happens there is a supermarket alongside with...

Can anyone explain this? It may be something you all know already and I'm just late to the party.. I could have posted this in any make of bins forum but since I first noticed it with the 8x42 SLC that I have been using for the last month or two, the Swarovski forum gets the honour... The...

Going back in time through Swarovski posts, prompted by the news of discontinuation of 8x and 10x 42 SLC models, I came across this old thread: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=75127 Now I am a bit of a sevens fan -- don't have a Swarovski seven though -- and wanted a bit of advice...

Read into this what you will, talk about it even but please do so behind my back as I am thin-skinned... Something I want to share as it has a happy ending, or perhaps it is more of a happy beginning now that a problem is finally solved. It has taken me just two years to set the dioptre...

Can anyone help, as internet searching has at best come up with ambiguities? The first and for nearly 25 years only binoculars I had were a compact pair of green armoured Trinovid 8x20 BCA in a little black leather etui or case. I thought they were amazing - that is till I got my first full-size...

On the subject of SLC models, I am confused by some of the nomenclature. In Roger Vine's Scope Views review of the 10x42 he calls it HD. Looking at his photos his binoculars look identical in badging and accessories (except for the green case) to the new one I bought this week in the modern...

This thread is a direct continuation of the one I started a day or two ago at https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=388597 . In that thread all who contributed gave me useful thoughts about the SLC 10x42 HD, based on which I decided to take a stab in the dark and order one, necessarily...

Your experience of latest version SLC 10x42 HD An idle, computer-based day today after enjoying equally leisurely days of birdwatching in the garden in these quieter times of less traffic and seemingly more birdsong. And my mind turning dangerously to thoughts of a higher magnification...

While confined to the house for a while I've been looking out from the windows watching the antics of young squirrels as well as blackbirds - the blackbirds seem to like holly berries: one wrenches them off while the other flits to and fro not far away in the background on the same tree. To...

This could as well be posted on another forum such as Leica but probably fits best here on Zeiss because of one of the questions below to do with poor light, a Zeiss speciality what with AK prisms in many last generation and some current generation models. It was pointed out to me in various...

Can anyone point me to a comparison chart not just for Zeiss (which is the brand I think of where light transmission is discussed, because of the AK prism advantage) but other makes? There are a few things I've been wondering which would be cleared up by looking at a single table: Does the...

I remember reading some lukewarm reports and worse of Zeiss q/c and service at times over the last few months or more. A good condition black 8x32 FL that I know has had a busy life but looks well looked after began to show signs of being out of adjustment and was therefore sent on to Zeiss in...

This is a general question but I'm hoping it's OK to post it on the Zeiss forum as this particular brand caters particularly well for low light users with its A-K prism models, many of which have been discontinued but remain in wide circulation. How much does the twilight factor hint at the...

Interested to know over what distance you all set your dioptre corrections. Yesterday on a visit to Gary at ECBR in Norfolk I learnt what I now realize I'd been told before: to set it at about 100 yards. My error had been to set at much closer range thinking that if I could get the tricky...