You can also buy cloths with Velcro tabs on the corners which are designed for wrapping around lenses (although it wouldn’t be beyond the wit of man to make your own).
It's all within the margin of rounding errors.
I wondered about that and did all that stuff before posting. If we're to take 56mm as accurate and round the maximum parameters (for rounding) of the exit pupil diameter: then 56/3.35 = 16.72 = 17 but 56/3.44 = 16.28 = 16. Of course, as above: 56/3.40 = 16.47 = 16.
Nice! Very much looking forward to your impressions once you had a chance to use the scope a bit more in the field.
As for the handling with gloves, is it more difficult than with larger scopes? I noticed that with my Swarovski Pocket CL 8x25, handling in winter with thick gloves was an issue. Although I am used to it now and don't mind the small focus wheel with gloves as much anymore. You have to get used to it a bit.
My delivery was delayed as well, they are supposed to have had a problem with colour! For the burnt orange ones, that is, green is apparently easier. It (the ATC) works fine with normal gloves (rabbit lined), I shall experiment with thicker gloves as soon as the winter fog lifts. BUT! Using a mask may be smart, there is no heating on the eyepiece,🙂
I followed the advice of more experienced birders than myself and started out with an MM3 60. Great scope, lightweight and handleable. I have tried several of the larger (also Swaro) scopes and stick to the light, portable one. The ATC will (probably!) be better optically with the same weight, but the MM3 60 was a good start. I also have a 90 mm Schmidt-Maksutov telescope with all the trimmings: I prefer the MM3 60 (good out to 300 meters+) for handling and overview. Very rarely have I had to peek through a more powerful scope in order to see a bird, and in warm weather you lose distance clarity to heat shimmer anyway.Good to hear. Did you have a larger scope before this one to compare with? Friends in the birding group are trying to talk me out of getting the ATC and into getting a bigger scope. That's fine if you bird the way they do, i.e. drive to a pool and stand there. But I usually hike/bike so I still feel like the ATC is the best choice here. It's pretty personal, I suppose. It will look funny next to their BTX's though
Funny, I feel the same way about the optics of the CL Pocket 8x25 by Swarovski. I take it everywhere, too. I can't imagine doing that even with a 8x32. The only thing I gave up was a bit of comfort in the eye cups, I feel like. That shouldn't even be the case for the ATC at all as it has the same occular as the ATX 65, if I am not mistaking.
But I haven't been birding for too long, yet. The Curio does seem like a great bino! I've been trying to get my girlfriend to buy one. I might need to gift her one next year for her bday, cheap as she is!I found myself using the curio and the MM3 60 in combo supported by a 10x40 habicht, the ATC will take the MM3's place. 70% curio, 30% Habicht, six other pairs rarely make it out of the house, so you might say the plan is ATC/Curio (+Habicht): totalling ca 3 kgs with tripod...Funny, I feel the same way about the optics of the CL Pocket 8x25 by Swarovski. I take it everywhere, too. I can't imagine doing that even with a 8x32. The only thing I gave up was a bit of comfort in the eye cups, I feel like. That shouldn't even be the case for the ATC at all as it has the same occular as the ATX 65, if I am not mistaking.
Good to hear you came to the same conclusion as myself!
Just wondering; are you planning to use the 7x21 in tandem with the ATC or do you also have a bigger binocular? I only use the 8x25
Is that with Habicht included? Nice spec!
Cost not withstanding this sounds like a great idea for a scope and binocular set -perfect set for a bit of back country backpacking and probably all you really need most of the time.
Sounds good. My little Nikon ED doesn't handle all that well with thick mittens.
You may want to try using a decent monopod if you want to keep the weight down as much as possible. That should work nicely with the Swaro. Handheld ... Well, it sounds as though yon can do without any support if necessary, but you really want some support out in the field. There aren't too many convenient walls out in the fjells ...
Great. I may have to have a long look at the ATC. I switched to using glasses instead of contact lenses last spring, and the zoom eyepieces of my Nikon Fieldscopes don't work very well with glasses. The FOV is pretty small anyway, and with glasses it's abysmal. At the moment I mainly use DS eyepieces, but a good zoom is undoubtedly a heck of a lot more convenient.
As Hermann mentioned in the thread before, didn't all scopes use to be without this pin in early days? I'd just make a habit of checking it habitually. Strange it would come loose that quickly though.
