My video review of Zeiss SFL 8x40 (2 Viewers)

[binomania]

Hello everybody. On my website "Binomania.it" you can find the review of the Zeiss SFL 8x40, including video on the YouTube channel. In my site there is the translation option in various languages, I hope it will help you.

English subtitles by dowsub.com have also been included in the video, you simply need to activate them from the YouTube settings.

Complete article: Recensione del binocolo ZEISS SFL 8x40 - RECENSIONI DI BINOCOLI, OTTICHE SPORTIVE E TELESCOPI ASTRONOMICI ...dal 2006
Video on YouTube:

Kind Regards from Italy
Pier

 

[Troubador]

Hello everybody. On my website "Binomania.it" you can find the review of the Zeiss SFL 8x40, including video on the YouTube channel. In my site there is the translation option in various languages, I hope it will help you.

English subtitles by dowsub.com have also been included in the video, you simply need to activate them from the YouTube settings.

Complete article: Recensione del binocolo ZEISS SFL 8x40 - RECENSIONI DI BINOCOLI, OTTICHE SPORTIVE E TELESCOPI ASTRONOMICI ...dal 2006
Video on YouTube:

Kind Regards from Italy
Pier

Pier
Unfortunately the translation option is not working.
When I ask for English, French or German, nothing changes., the text remains in Italian!

Lee

 

[henry link]

Same translation problem here.

 

[Mike Crawley]

Captions are in English for me.
Thanks Pier, interesting video.

 

[pm42]

Same here but as already said in a previous thread, Google Chrome can do it and the english translation is quite good.

I'm using the SLF 8x40 in Italy right now, watching birds (heron) and boats in Grado's Laguna.
Being in the most beautiful country in the world with great weather and excellent binoculars is fun. I still need to find a way to mix binoculars and food, another marvel here to be in heaven.

Thanks to Pier for another excellent review.

 

[henry link]

I have no problem getting English subtitles with the video . My translation problem is with the text at the Binomania website.

 

[Bill Atwood]

Focus wheel on the bins in that video definitely turns more easily than on mine.

 

[Canip]

Hello everybody. On my website "Binomania.it" you can find the review of the Zeiss SFL 8x40, including video on the YouTube channel. In my site there is the translation option in various languages, I hope it will help you.

English subtitles by dowsub.com have also been included in the video, you simply need to activate them from the YouTube settings.

Complete article: Recensione del binocolo ZEISS SFL 8x40 - RECENSIONI DI BINOCOLI, OTTICHE SPORTIVE E TELESCOPI ASTRONOMICI ...dal 2006
Video on YouTube:

Kind Regards from Italy
Pier

Thank you for another exciting review, Piergiovanni!
One brief remark: your AFOV number (campo apparente) is too optimistic, with 64 degrees it is way above Zeiss‘ spec (60) and corresponds actually to the SF 8x42 AFOV (my own measurement for the SFL resulted in 60 degrees).

Canip

 

[Hermann]

I have no problem getting English subtitles with the video . My translation problem is with the text at the Binomania website.

What I normally do in such cases is copy the text into the box of the Google translator. Works just fine.

Hermann

 

[henry link]

I do that too, but Google Translate seems to have a limit on the number of characters it will translate in one gulp. Usually I can only translate one or two paragraphs at a time that way.

 

[Thotmosis]

Nice -as always- review Pier, thanks and greetings from The Netherlands!

 

[binomania]

Pier
Unfortunately the translation option is not working.
When I ask for English, French or German, nothing changes., the text remains in Italian!

Lee

Hello everybody. I answer first to Lee and Henry, and excuse me if you have to see my big face in this picture again. Excuse the advertising too, but for me it is my primary job with which I support the family and I live this way and with the paypal donations of the readers. In the website I have a "plugin" that allows you to choose the language. I have seen that its position depends on the browser of personal computers but also on the operating system of smartphones. Either way, it is visible in everyone, you should try to find him… as long as you feel like it. For the rest, thanks to everyone for the comments. For the apparent field, to standardize even the old articles, I always use the "old formula" real field x magnification or linear field : 17.45 meters. Years ago I mentioned both of them, but then I stopped. For focusing, that of the sample I tested was excellent, including the fluidity of the knob. Ciao belli!

 

[Vespobuteo]

Coatings sure looks different...

https://www.binomania.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/zeiss-sfl-8x40-2-1536x1024.jpg?v=1660036847

 

[Troubador]

Hello everybody. I answer first to Lee and Henry, and excuse me if you have to see my big face in this picture again. Excuse the advertising too, but for me it is my primary job with which I support the family and I live this way and with the paypal donations of the readers. In the website I have a "plugin" that allows you to choose the language. I have seen that its position depends on the browser of personal computers but also on the operating system of smartphones. Either way, it is visible in everyone, you should try to find him… as long as you feel like it. For the rest, thanks to everyone for the comments. For the apparent field, to standardize even the old articles, I always use the "old formula" real field x magnification or linear field : 17.45 meters. Years ago I mentioned both of them, but then I stopped. For focusing, that of the sample I tested was excellent, including the fluidity of the knob. Ciao belli!

Ciao Pier
The translation plugin is easy to find but it does not work for me at all. I think I already mentioned that if I select French, German or English translation, your text remains in Italian..........

Ciao bello
Lee

 

[Canip]

For the apparent field, to standardize even the old articles, I always use the "old formula" real field x magnification or linear field : 17.45 meters. Years ago I mentioned both of them, but then I stopped.

… which means that you are sometimes, as here in the case of the SFL, really far away from the true AFOV value, i.e. the one that corresponds to what you perceive when using the binocular - in my view a pity 😞

 

[Conndomat]

… which means that you are sometimes, as here in the case of the SFL, really far away from the true AFOV value, i.e. the one that corresponds to what you perceive when using the binocular - in my view a pity 😞

Which the manufacturers (apart from Swarovski) are not entirely innocent of.

Example Zeiss, with the SF the true AFOV is specified, with the conquest it uses the simple formula that always raises question marks, especially for beginners.
I have no idea why the manufacturers can't just take the trouble to measure their binoculars correctly?!

Andreas

 

[GrampaTom]

Which the manufacturers (apart from Swarovski) are not entirely innocent of.

Example Zeiss, with the SF the true AFOV is specified, with the conquest it uses the simple formula that always raises question marks, especially for beginners.
I have no idea why the manufacturers can't just take the trouble to measure their binoculars correctly?!

Andreas

Is it possible I’m not the only one? I get in words what the AFOV is supposed to represent, the width of view our eyes see, as distinct from actual angle of the FOV used to calculate linear. It goes against every thing, I ever thought I knew about a Bino that greater magnification yields wider FOV yet isn’t that what that so called “older” formula infers mag x linear FOV. Am I not alone Andreas or Canip?

 

[Conndomat]

Is it possible I’m not the only one? I get in words what the AFOV is supposed to represent, the width of view our eyes see, as distinct from actual angle of the FOV used to calculate linear. It goes against every thing, I ever thought I knew about a Bino that greater magnification yields wider FOV yet isn’t that what that so called “older” formula infers mag x linear FOV. Am I not alone Andreas or Canip?

Hi Tom,

Honestly, I don't understand your question, maybe my English is too bad.
Could you simplify the question again for a stupid?

Andreas

 

[GrampaTom]

Hi Tom,

Honestly, I don't understand your question, maybe my English is too bad.
Could you simplify the question again for a stupid?

Andreas

OK, lemme try. Taking off from what you posted about true AFOV vs “the simple formula that always raises questions,” I think I’m may be one that struggles with those questions.

I’m reasonably sure I get what AFOV represents in words/conceptually. If a manufacturer publishes AFOV as something measured in the lab, I’m cool with it.

It’s that old simple formula that confuses me. I’ve long thought I understood as magnification increases that FOV decreases. That simple formula says the opposite. If calculating AFOV says you magnify FOV by magnification that then means the higher the magnification the wider the FOV.

How can this be?

 

[tenex]

It goes against every thing, I ever thought I knew about a Bino that greater magnification yields wider [A!]FOV

Stop and think... this is so, but only given the same real FOV. If you take that view and magnify it further, it will get wider. But both real field and magnification enter into the equation for AFOV. And of course the real field is generally smaller as magnification increases, so this largely balances giving many models similar AFOVs around 60° regardless of specs.