How is internal fogging in the Nikon E2, at the eyepieces? I mean sometimes your bodyheat can fog the eyepiece, even in "normal" weather.
Carsten
I posted this on another thread:
"In years of using Es, EIIs and SEs, I've had exactly one fogging incident. I live in south Florida, where we get 60" of rain a year, have high to very high humidity much of the year, and I'm often wading while I hunt or birdwatch. In that instance, I had my EIIs out in a torrential rain on a swamp buggy and was quite careless about covering them up. Had I been careful about keeping the rain guard on or tucking them inside a jacket (part of the problem--I was caught without a jacket) they would not have fogged. I got soaked enough that afternoon that my wallet was completely waterlogged and had to be emptied and dried. A couple of days in a warm, dry place and the fogging was gone.
These bins will not fog unless they really get wet. Reasonable care is enough."
For some reason the idea has taken hold that binoculars must be completely waterproof to be field worthy. It's a selling point for the manufacturers, I know, but it's nonsense. These bins give brilliant views, and what's more I've never had a pair go out of collimation or be otherwise damaged in lots of field use. I've dropped them in the swamp, dropped them in and out of the swamp buggy, banged them against trees and barbed wire fences, carried them everywhere jammed in my hydration pack with my other gear, and never had a lick of trouble. I used to carry a ziplok bag for them in case of a bad downpour, but found that that wasn't necessary. They're not water soluble, and getting them wet on the outside doesn't affect a thing. If you let water stand inside the oculars for very long, some of it will get inside and you'll have fogging. If you give them a prolonged dunk or clean them off with your garden hose, they will fog. If you keep the rain guard in place, which you would do with any waterproof binocular anyway, they won't fog.
I haven't used every good bin out there, but I've used the Swaro 10x42 SLCs, Zeiss Victory 8x42 and Classic 10x42's, and I own (for now) a pair of Zeiss 8x32 FLs. None of them match the view I get through the SEs, and that's worth a little care now and then.