Vista 8X26 Compact (1 Viewer)

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Penwolf

Member

• Mar 27, 2010

• #1

Any one have any experience with the Vista 8X26 Compact?
It looks like a handy bin for theatre, museums, and for light weight use.

 

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Penwolf

Member

• Mar 28, 2010

• #2

So no one has used these bin's? I am supprized that with all the Zen-Ray fans no body has used the Vista 8X26's

Any idea about other forum(s) I can try?

Thanks

 

Kevin Purcell

Well-known member

• Mar 28, 2010

• #3

Penwolf a little bit of searching on compacts in general on this forum and you'll find out why most folks haven't tried them. It's mostly that compacts are compromises and there area lot of them out there. And unless they stand out optics geeks tend not to gravitate to them.

 

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John S.

Well-known member

• Mar 28, 2010

• #4

Penwolf said:

Any one have any experience with the Vista 8X26 Compact?
It looks like a handy bin for theatre, museums, and for light weight use.

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An 8x26 bin would in my experience be a bit on the large side for use in a theater, museum, opera, etc. Something with lower magnification, wider field, closer focus and smaller size ( including objectives) would seem more useful.

 

Tero

Retired

• Mar 30, 2010

• #5

8x is fine for the theater, just you need wide field to see the whole stage. There are a few 7x compacts, maybe just one. Opera glasses probably are not worth it, at 4x.

 

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Nessus

Well-known member

• Apr 9, 2010

• #6

It all depends if you're 8 rows back or 50. I've never had a problem with my 8's in a theater.

I wanted to buy the Bushnell 4x32 I think it was? I thought it was going to be so cool with that giant field but they were Perma focus which to me means never focus.

 

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spitfiretriple

Well-known member

• Apr 16, 2010

• #7

8x26 sounds to me like a good size/config for taking walking, when you don't want the extra weight of a full-size.

As regards Kevin's comment about "compacts are compromises", well sure, but then any binocular is compromised. Just like any car is compromised. Any 'plane, any laptop, any anything. Doesn't stop us buying them. Edit, other things might stop us buying the 'plane...

 

Kevin Purcell

Well-known member

• Apr 16, 2010

• #8

The problem is compacts are usually so compromised they don't do anything very well, especially the none top end ones.

Not quite the same as compromise meaning trade off. I have bins that make trade off amongst their properties (all of them do) that work well for particular purposes. Like the cars I drive and the planes I fly in.

Folks and try compacts but as the number of threads here point out cheap, small and good are mutually exclusive properties.