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New Product Introduction Today From Swarovski ? (1 Viewer)
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jan van daalen
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jan van daalen
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AFAIK it will be the 10 and 12x.
jan van daalen
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What is wrong with the CL30 line?
Jan. I hope you like the NL 8x42. I just pre-ordered one with 10% off. They said late august.
elkcub
Silicon Valley, California
jan van daalen
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I assume you are talking about the first model.
The current one with the optical box and bigger eye lens..........
Jan
jan van daalen
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elkcub
Silicon Valley, California
So what's the FOV and ER of the "Neu" CL?
Don't criticize the CLs. I have the 8x30 and 10x30. They are great little binoculars. The EL 8x32 is a tad better but it is more expensive also.
jan van daalen
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132 meters and ER is no issue thanks to the optical box.
Most dealers did not even want to give that. They said they were in such HIGH demand!Dennis,
Only 10%?
You must be getting soft on your ageo
Jan
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Well, Swaro's NL42 are the answer to Zeiss SF42, which came out 5 years ago.
If there would be a NL32 ready to be launched this year, it would have been announced now as well, before the SF32 becomes available. It will take some more time, but probably not another 5 years.
The Zeiss SF32 won't be "dead in the water". Even if Swaro manages to sell more NL32 than Zeiss does sell SF32, who cares? At least I don't. What matters to potential binocular buyers is that we may have two great wide-angle 32s with good ergonomics to chose from. And who knows, maybe even Leica is working on a new 32? :-O (this year would have been Photokina, when Leica often announced new products)
John Cantelo
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I don't think anyone has yet fully explained quite why they're quite so much more expensive than their stable mates. The ELs are roughly a third more than SLCs but the NL range is a 50% hike again. Were the development costs exceptional? Is it tooling up for a new line that makes them cost that much more? Are they harder to make? Or is it the cost of paying for exceptional service? I don't think, though, that a new binocular not yet available has ever previously created such a stir on BF.
elkcub
Silicon Valley, California
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elkcub
Silicon Valley, California
One might say it's gone viral !?
Leica has a batch of new 32, in fact 35s, they are called Retrovids
It's interesting to see them put these up against the new SF, although to be fair theirs is available and the SF is not
The 7x35 is quite nice actually, I don't know about the others.
I really wish Swaro had started by updating their bestseller 8x32 EL, but binocular companies like introducing the standard expensive x42 first.
This is an interesting year, we've seen new products from the three alpha firms, the NL, the Retrovid and the new SF.
Edmund
