If you visit my vortex solo first impressions in the Vortex subsection, I talk about how I recently purchased an solo 8x25 model, and one of the occular eyepiece elements was rattling around in the eyepiece. I've returned it.
But since then I've purchases a Vortex vanquish on Amazon for my uncle, it received it yesterday, and it looks like the entire right barrel assembly was sloppily put together, with a optical large blur in the upper corner, and I'm kinda sure it's uncollimated with the eye strain I got from looking through it.
The out of the box quality of Vortex's entry level offerings are hit and miss right now (I got two misses total), and I'm hesitant right now to recommend them to anyone looking for affordable binoculars or getting into binoculars.
I'm going to attempt to see how their warranty service is.
But since then I've purchases a Vortex vanquish on Amazon for my uncle, it received it yesterday, and it looks like the entire right barrel assembly was sloppily put together, with a optical large blur in the upper corner, and I'm kinda sure it's uncollimated with the eye strain I got from looking through it.
The out of the box quality of Vortex's entry level offerings are hit and miss right now (I got two misses total), and I'm hesitant right now to recommend them to anyone looking for affordable binoculars or getting into binoculars.
I'm going to attempt to see how their warranty service is.
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