james holdsworth
Consulting Biologist
I'll put it this way - this is MY version of a dream bino, not yours. I, personally, do not want batteries and electronics in my binos.
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Hi Everybody,
thanks a lot for your well thought through comments.
What do you all think about the handling of binoculars in general?
When I am using my binos (although they are really light compared to other models) I come across the situation that I still have to hold them in front of my eye all the time. If I do not have a place to rest my elbows on it can still get quite stressful after a while. Do you also have this situation?
Zory
I'll put it this way - this is MY version of a dream bino, not yours. I, personally, do not want batteries and electronics in my binos.
Yes! Many binos in these days of huge eye relief cause this problem for me, because their eyecups are too short, so I can't enjoy holding them. There are ways of holding them up against your brow, or with fingers there etc, but really you need something that fits your face, and if you look at enough different models you will eventually find one. Good luck!What do you all think about the handling of binoculars in general?
When I am using my binos (although they are really light compared to other models) I come across the situation that I still have to hold them in front of my eye all the time. If I do not have a place to rest my elbows on it can still get quite stressful after a while. Do you also have this situation?
The idea has great visceral appeal, as illustrated by the many people who much prefer mechanical watches to their digital successors.
But there is no hope that a mechanical stabilization can be robust enough to survive routine field use, nor that one could find anyone able to repair it when it needed help. The training pipeline for such people has been dismantled, so no one to make them and no one to fix them.
I'm with James on this. While I am aware that electronic IS tech is getting cheaper and more compact (don't know whether it is getting more effective) I don't like the shape of Canon IS binos from a handling point of view and I would be nervous of being out in rain for hours with electronic binos or indeed getting drenched by sea-spray. I would need a lot of convincing to feel comfortable about battery powered binos.
I don't know enough about mechanical stabilisation to conclude whether this technology is reliable and robust or compact enough but like James said: we are dreaming here.....
Lee
A really good zoom binocular is what I'd like to see, and it already EXISTS.
So no need to dream.
Adaptive sunglasses with 15x zoom autofocus and image capture networked to a local device (phone-like?) that stores images and provides heads up display. Kind of Google Glasses on steroids. The Borg have had this capability for quite some time.
A really good zoom binocular is what I'd like to see, and it already EXISTS.
So no need to dream.
8/10/12x50 sounds interesting and while we are dreaming lets make it a 52mm. Naturally we also want decent eye relief, excellent field of view, 2.0m close focus and to weigh 750g max.