Generally I think that modern binoculars have pathetically small fields of view.
Hi,
the problem is that building binoculars with afov beyond 70 deg to a current standard of edge quality and eye relief needs a complex eyepiece with a fairly large eyelens. The field stop and thus most other lenses plus the prism assembly also need to be fairly large due to the tfov requirement.
When this is done, you get the Nikon WX 10x50 - Nice wide afov, great quality but size, weight and price are shocking. Even the WX 7x50 lost a bit of afov in order to fit into the same form factor.
The old 6x and 7x super wide angle bins usually had very short eye relief and the edge quality was abysmal - how did the stars look at the edge of field when measuring the star separations in your Minolta - could you refocus to get pinpoint stars at the edges?
Joachim
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