Chosun Juan
Given to Fly
Good post all round Bruce :t:None really ..... The third change is switching the armor from black to gray and I think the surface feel is also a little different and it may feel thicker. I do not look at this as an improvement but as a styling change. I prerfer the gray because it has a noticeably cooler surface temperature out here in the AZ desert during a summer afternoon. It works for me because I am dumb enough to sometimes wonder about at that time of the year. The gray is more likely to show dirt than the black but I have not found it to be a problem.
The gray sold out on clearance for as much as $1,300 below the new black model. Other than the color, the gray could be udpdated to be the same as the black for free. I do remember coming across a person who was considering an SF saying they did not like the gray color and would not buy it on clearance even with that kind of savings. My thought was how short sighted since it probably could have been sent to Zeiss for new black armor even if it cost say $100 or so. Oh well .....
At stupid extremes of temperature, solar radiation and heat soak, that has got to pay off optically - though by then most 'sensible' people would be in air-conditioned comfort having a cold beverage! B
Those that picked up the gray model on clearance did well - that's a more sensible price for a binocular :cat:
Chosun :gh: