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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kabsetz" data-source="post: 3582372" data-attributes="member: 10167">About 3D and the Noctivid. I have a 10x42 NV on loan presently, for a little bit of testing. To my eyes and brain, the image presented by these binoculars does indeed at times look quite palpably three dimensional, more so than what I am accustomed to seeing. The reason for this as far as I can tell is a combination of three things, all of which have been mentioned before. Firstly unprecedented contrast and freedom from just about any veiling glare or other types of unwanted reflections. Secondly the very high color saturation of the image and the absolutely superb contrast. And thirdly, relative lack of common optical aberrations and consequently very high image sharpness, both as comes to measurable resolution and to the appearance of the image to the eye.The sample I'm checking, which was randomly picked, has both tubes equally good with booster measured resolution equalling the best I have seen in 10x42 binoculars and an image that looks exceedingly clean and sharp when magnified to 30x.When these strengths come together and are aided by a little bit of traditional pincushion distortion and a nice moderate bit of field curvature, your eyes see a natural and pleasing image with very little "hash" to mess things up, and your brain happily produces a three-dimensional perceptual experience out of this.I read Gijs's report on the handling comfort, and mostly agree on the specific points concerning the placement of the strap lugs and the focus wheel and such, but for me and my way of holding a binocular the Noctivid works just fine. For my facial anatomy, the eyecups also work unusually well, providing both good comfort and good shielding.Kimmo</blockquote>

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