vixen 6.5x32 WP ED (1 Viewer)

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Geo. G.

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• Sep 18, 2016

• #1

"Vixen Optics 6.5x32 WP ED Astro Binocular"

Anyone know anything about this offering? It has a reasonably wide 9 degree fov with good eye relief. So few wide-field low-power roofs out there it caught my eye. It's advertised at the NY camera stores...

-geo

 

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Geo. G.

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• Sep 18, 2016

• #2

oh wait....minimum focus of 20 feet. dang.

 

pete_gamby

Birds? What Birds?!

• Oct 18, 2016

• #3

We've just taken delivery of stock of these (Opticron is the UK distributor for Vixen) and on first impression, they seem well-built and optically not too bad at all.

The individual eyepiece focus does allow better than 20 ft close focus (I can get them to around 10 ft) but they are meant for star gazing so have massive depth of field out beyond about 20 metres.

I'm looking for UK-based reviewers - if anyone is interested, please PM or email me on [email protected].

Thanks!

Pete

 

FrankD

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• Oct 18, 2016

• #4

Why did you have to say UK-based Pete?

 

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Geo. G.

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• Oct 19, 2016

• #5

yes, I'd love to review it here too! It looks like it might be a very nice wide-field astro bin.

And if it had a central focuser, I'd buy it sight-unseen, given your remark that the close focus is near 10 feet. I just can't understand why the very few low-power birding roofs out there all have simple eyepieces with afov no more than 50 degrees. At least this one is pushing 58 degrees by my naive calculation.

 

pete_gamby

Birds? What Birds?!

• Oct 19, 2016

• #6

Sorry Frank! I'm sure Brian Deis at Vixen Optics in San Clemente, CA would be happy to discuss getting you a review unit - I'll send you his email address.

Cheers, Pete

 

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Petrus82

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• Oct 22, 2016

• #7

Emailed Pete twice at the email address given but no reply to either email. I can only assume he found enough people to review....