opisska
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Observers would not want a 24mm binocular to be as long as the 8x56.
But at f/8.75 the performance would be good.
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If that's true than said observers have only themselves to blame for having to lug around a heavy binocular needlessly, right?
But I am happy that I was able to put my point forward that the performance of binoculars is not strictly limited by the lack of aspherical elements ...
This reminds me of the sad fact that there are no binoculars on the market that I would know about without rectified image. Imagine how lightweight yet optically great bins you could get if people were just willing to accept seeing the world upside down. It's not even hard to get used to it to the point of basically ignoring the fact after some time, but alas.