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Why are you keeping your 7x binoculars?
As Alexis notes Eye Placement is one of it's virtues. The 6mm exit pupil of a 7 x 42 is very forgiving of minor mis-alignments of your IPD when your pupil has contracted in bright light. You have more room to play with. This is less so with a 7 x 35 but it still will be larger than your own... -
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Why are you keeping your 7x binoculars?
In both of his books about identifying Hawks in flight in the section about "Optics for Hawk Watching" Jerry Liguori stated he used 7 x 42 binoculars because of their wide field of view. He used Zeiss 7 x 45 Night Owls from 1994 to 2008 when he switched to a 7 x 42 Victory FL. He noted that... -
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Why are you keeping your 7x binoculars?
Florian, I don't really know what the army's of the world are using now. Some 7 x 28 IF Roof Prism binoculars have been used in the Near East and have been discussed here in the past. The 6 x 30 porro prism was in ubiquitous use throughout WWI and WWII although they were all IF. You are... -
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Why are you keeping your 7x binoculars?
I compare FOVs of binoculars on the same subject which is a tree line of tall coniferous trees with a tall Oak tree in the center. All the trees are in focus at infinity. 8º with a 7x42 is no different than 8º with an 8x42. But the view through the 7x42 is smaller. Bob -
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Why are you keeping your 7x binoculars?
I think that is also why so many of the binoculars used by the armies of the world in the 20th Century, outside of the Warsaw Pact, were 6 x 30 porro prisms. Bob -
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Why are you keeping your 7x binoculars?
The last production of the 7 x 42 SLC might have been in 2006? There might have been some later ones. I don't know. At least mine, which I purchased a couple of years ago as a Demo from Eagle Optics is a 2006. Bob -
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Why are you keeping your 7x binoculars?
Sorry about that. I have 4 7 x 42's going back to the early Leitz 7 x 42 BA Trinovid which I used for a long time and I have preferred using 7x 42 since then. I upgraded it to a Leica Trinovid. 2 others I own have been discontinued; the Swarovski SLC B and the Zeiss Victory FL T*. I got them... -
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Why are you keeping your 7x binoculars?
Some times it take time and re-reading to get things right. Did you ever re-write some things? And I edited it before I read your comment. Bob -
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Why are you keeping your 7x binoculars?
Only for what it is worth. And that is not what our students are being taught. Bob -
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Why are you keeping your 7x binoculars?
I agree with you Holger. But rather than call them "silly customers" I would suggest that they are "uniformed" customers who rely on the internet to get their information. I believe that opinions gathered from the internet sway customers; and marketers in turn use these opinions to help make... -
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Why are you keeping your 7x binoculars?
Look into Leupold's 7 x42 Hawthorne which replaced it's BX-2 with a fully-multicoated version. The BX-2 was very good for it's price. Bob