BlueJayLover
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Are the HD's and HD plus really that much better, or is this all marketing hype?
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A Hard Time Finding 8X42 Ultravid Plus - What gives? (1 Viewer)
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dwever
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Better than what? Have not used the HD's, just HD plus. Pretty stunning image. Well worth the $1,900 I paid at demo discount, and still worth it had I paid the full $2,400. I wasn't sure they would be. But wow.
Never mind picking out individual models, are Leicas, Swarovskis or Zeisses 'that much better' than, something less expensive?
Its a question that only each individual person can answer after having had a good look through the instruments and considered the purchase price.
Lee
dwever
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Being someone who has used 3rd tier binoculars around $300+; and second tier binoculars in the $1,000ish range in part-time State law enforcement; at each level I was thrilled because I didn't know anything else existed.
When I stepped up from the Steiners to the Zeiss Marines where the latter are probably just not quite alphas but well better than Conquests I thought that was just stunning and they were.
But then one day just outside of Montgomery, Alabama I looked across a massive Bass Pro out the window and to the highway through some Swarovision EL 10X42's and I thought, "are you kidding me?" So now I own an Ultravid HD Plus, and my personal answer to are the alphas worth the extra coin is resoundingly yes.
I don't begin to have the experience or frame-of-expertise most who post on this forum do. I did know those Zeiss Marines permitted me to clearly look right in to a car as they came over a hill, even at dusk, and write the seat-belt ticket as a result.
With the alphas, the law of diminishing returns is undeniably in play, but even so, they are fully worth the price of admission.
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I see you have the Big Zeiss posted for sale in the sales forum
You posted the above picture back in August and the binocular received some very favorable comments then.
Are you sure you want to sell it?
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=309567
Bob
dwever
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Yeah, 'cause I'm only selling one. The one without teethmarks from my dog. There was no reason to have two before, now with the Ultravids two Marines make no sense. Plus, I promised someone I'd sell them to offset some of the Ultravid cost.
