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Glare, flare, internal reflections and veiling??? Someone care to explain?
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<blockquote data-quote="OPTIC_NUT" data-source="post: 2949395" data-attributes="member: 121951"><p>After all the cleanings and range-testings, I tend to think of it</p><p>more in terms of the source. Nicotine film is fascinating...looks smooth</p><p>and only slightly yellow on the surface, causes a uniform smoke haze from molecular</p><p>scattering. The contrast loss in many recent binocs is a bit blotchy and subtle</p><p>but it messes up looking into shadows. Fortunately, about 1-2 yrs ago the makers</p><p>started taking front suppression seriously again. The "ring of fire" problem was in a lot</p><p>of 8x40s but quieted down a year or so ago. About the time I started wishing for</p><p>better irising it filtered into the products again. There are still shiny plastic ribbed</p><p>moldings that they should just cheaply sand-blast but that's in lower cost models.</p><p>Many roof units I tested today had 2-stage suppression up front...a far cry</p><p>from 3 years ago.</p><p></p><p>In a nutshell, I think the fuss about stray light will go down now as the makers </p><p>add proper front end work to all models.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OPTIC_NUT, post: 2949395, member: 121951"] After all the cleanings and range-testings, I tend to think of it more in terms of the source. Nicotine film is fascinating...looks smooth and only slightly yellow on the surface, causes a uniform smoke haze from molecular scattering. The contrast loss in many recent binocs is a bit blotchy and subtle but it messes up looking into shadows. Fortunately, about 1-2 yrs ago the makers started taking front suppression seriously again. The "ring of fire" problem was in a lot of 8x40s but quieted down a year or so ago. About the time I started wishing for better irising it filtered into the products again. There are still shiny plastic ribbed moldings that they should just cheaply sand-blast but that's in lower cost models. Many roof units I tested today had 2-stage suppression up front...a far cry from 3 years ago. In a nutshell, I think the fuss about stray light will go down now as the makers add proper front end work to all models. [/QUOTE]
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