Eden XP 10x42 and 10x56 (1 Viewer)

typo said:

While I have those Edens I thought I'd track down a few more binos to see how they stand up to pricier competition. Only shop doorway comparisons with a town centre view, so not really a fair assessment.

The Edens appeared to have a richer, more saturated colour and contrasty view than both the open and closed hinge Hawke Sapphire EDs. While the Hawkes were a bit sharper to the edges than the Eden x42 in particular and had probably less CA, in an urban setting with a lot of straight edges, I found the distortion on the Hawkes unbearable. The Eden x56 won that easily for me. Trying to ignore the distortion on the Hawkes, it was swings and roundabouts on the x42, and probably comes down to personal taste. The Bushnell Elites HD were much closer, and probably had the advantage on CA, but the x56 had seemingly the flatter view. I'd give the advantage to the Elite, but it was closer that I might have guessed. Not surprisingly a Swarovski EL won that little shoot out. Curiously it was the only one that showed the same occasional flare issue as the Eden.

David

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