First impression not so big and pretty light ! Same weight as the conquest and seems lighter as there are larger !
Ergonomically there are almost perfect ! Focus wheel is reeeally nice ! Only the eyecaps seems a little bit cheap but there works !
Now the view ! Really sharp !! seems sharper than my conquest 10X42hd but maybe it s only because the sweet spot is much bigger ! ??
Color rendition : it is neutral....warmer than my kowa but all in all neutral.
Field of view is very nice, but i still see the barrel as the apparent FOV is not 180 ° 3 .
CA : i can see it if i want but it onthe lower side.
My only concern is that the field is not so flat ! On the lower part it begin to be noticiably unsharp at more than 50% . And the extreme part at more than maybe 85% is really bad (with like a blue ring) !
Sure you don't see it in normal observation so it is not really important...
So very nice bino but i would like to try it in 10 power.
I am liking a lot the 10X on the conquest (comparing to other 8X bino), but i prefer finally the 8X of the SF ! A shame that i can t test 8X vs10X SF.
Ergonomically there are almost perfect ! Focus wheel is reeeally nice ! Only the eyecaps seems a little bit cheap but there works !
Now the view ! Really sharp !! seems sharper than my conquest 10X42hd but maybe it s only because the sweet spot is much bigger ! ??
Color rendition : it is neutral....warmer than my kowa but all in all neutral.
Field of view is very nice, but i still see the barrel as the apparent FOV is not 180 ° 3 .
CA : i can see it if i want but it onthe lower side.
My only concern is that the field is not so flat ! On the lower part it begin to be noticiably unsharp at more than 50% . And the extreme part at more than maybe 85% is really bad (with like a blue ring) !
Sure you don't see it in normal observation so it is not really important...
So very nice bino but i would like to try it in 10 power.
I am liking a lot the 10X on the conquest (comparing to other 8X bino), but i prefer finally the 8X of the SF ! A shame that i can t test 8X vs10X SF.