This is just a quick impression of a Maven B1.2. I've only had it a couple of days. My other glasses are Nikon E11 8x30s. I've bought and sold several similar binoculars this last year, all at the same price range. All were pretty good. What I wanted out of these was light wieght, good fov, no field flattener, good image quality. I really love the little E11's, so these are meant to compliment those glasses. I have few gripes about the B1.2's. I wish the focus went a bit further. Without glasses, I just about run out of room to have the ability to have a focused image. They do work well with glasses, which helps. I don't like the floppy objective covers, but they can easily be replaced. The eyecups have four settings. I wish they had a bit more resistance, but they stay put ok. Dept of field is pretty good for 10x, but without direct comparison, don't really know how good. The E11's spoil me big time on that score. They are magical. On the positive side, fov is very good, and the image certainly is sharp edge-to-edge, at least to my eyes. I'm not real concerned if there's a tiny bit of imperfect edge quality. Image quality is very good. The only binoculars I have looked through that were a bit better were Swaro Habitch 10x40's, and some SLC's. The two things I really like about the image of the B1.2's are how inclusive the view is, and the ability to focus really well on one object, whatever it might be. That's one thing that bugged me a bit with Monarch HG's- I had a bit of trouble with that. That might have been a slight collimation problem, maybe. These are really solid, good binoculars. Colors seem pretty neutral, not much warm tint. They pop pretty well. Sharpness is very good, as is brightness and clarity. Overall, I like them. Hopefully, I now have the two binoculars I need to hang on to. I imagine all the better binos at this price range are fairly similar. These are very good.
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