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Victory SF: Condensation on ocular lens
It won't stop the green SWAROMONSTER! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! :-O -
Victory SF: Condensation on ocular lens
But you do have Mad Cow Disease from time to time? ;) HN -
Victory SF: Condensation on ocular lens
I think Zeiss should outfit their binoculars with force fields to prevent that from happening! ;) HN -
Victory SF: Condensation on ocular lens
If you think it is a problem, I would notify Zeiss, and have it sent in for a checkup. My second SF (after I broke the hinge on the first one by dropping it on a stone floor) had a speck in the optics. Zeiss acknowledged this, and offered me a replacement binocular. HN -
Victory SF: Condensation on ocular lens
...and by the way, I doubt any form of coating on a commercial binocular (or professional for that matter) could withstand a temperature difference of 50 degrees centigrade and still not fog up. HN -
Victory SF: Condensation on ocular lens
I could just be that one ocular was colder than the other, or the binocular heated up unevenly, and hence the ocular stayed fogged up for longer. That said, I have used the SF for more than an hour in - 25 C, and everything on it worked flawlessly. And this was the very first production run mind... -
Victory SF: Condensation on ocular lens
Hi Dennis! Please don't implicate me in your cheap crusade against the SF! I own both the Swarovski 8x32 EL SV and the Zeiss 8x42 SF, and guess which one I pick 98 % of the time? Yeah, it's not the Swaro! ;) HN