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New AX Visio 10x32 binocular (1 Viewer)
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dwever
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Impressions? Are the optics EL or NL quality? Pleased with the electronics?
It's (as expected) an impressive piece of kit. It has an extensive users guide, and that needs reading iot use all the functions properly.
Brilliant optics (I'm not sure I know the details of EL and NL?) combined with a camera and controlled by computers. Impressive electronic compass and positioning. Camera is very good, both video and single frames come out well, and it communicates well with the phone.
The optics are true, no electronics in the optic path, and extremely good (with the limitations 32 mm gives).
Weight and handling likewise, they are easily handled and stable.
Heavy clouds and high humidity after the storm, apart from a flight of bramblings all I found was a couple of very suspicious crows ("he looked at us, run!") and a magpie with binophobia, so the birding evaluation must wait.
Happy so far.
Per
Brilliant optics (I'm not sure I know the details of EL and NL?) combined with a camera and controlled by computers. Impressive electronic compass and positioning. Camera is very good, both video and single frames come out well, and it communicates well with the phone.
The optics are true, no electronics in the optic path, and extremely good (with the limitations 32 mm gives).
Weight and handling likewise, they are easily handled and stable.
Heavy clouds and high humidity after the storm, apart from a flight of bramblings all I found was a couple of very suspicious crows ("he looked at us, run!") and a magpie with binophobia, so the birding evaluation must wait.
Happy so far.
Per
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In case you find the Visio too expensive or too heavy, here is an „alternative“ 
www.birdforum.net
Poll: will you buy Swarovski AX Visio?
Here is a to-do-list to "make" a cheap "alternative" to the AX Visio if the nice new Swarovski is outside your budget. Unfortunately, in the process you will have to give up a few things that the Visio has ;) Starting with the Visio, remove one of the two tubes to get a monocular design...
www.birdforum.net
In case you find the Visio too expensive or too heavy, here is an „alternative“
Poll: will you buy Swarovski AX Visio?
Here is a to-do-list to "make" a cheap "alternative" to the AX Visio if the nice new Swarovski is outside your budget. Unfortunately, in the process you will have to give up a few things that the Visio has ;) Starting with the Visio, remove one of the two tubes to get a monocular design...
you'd have the photography and ID capability without any of the experience of not having to live in your phone, which is the whole point.
Or I could just digiscope through my ATC and use bird id on the phone. The phone has a compass. But I won't🥳
Yup. The whole point of the AXV isn't that it's a camera mounted to a binocular that you can get bird IDs from, it's that it's an unobtrusive device that lets you use it while you're focused on enjoying being outside. People seem to be missing this.
tenex
reality-based
Presumably the compass is required to provide the pointing-guide feature, but what else can it do?
Well, it is a working compass, so it provides you with direction, and It measures elevation.
Elevation as in feet/meters above sea level, or you are looking up or down at an angle of so many degrees?
Up / down in degrees (to get elevation above sea level, the Visio would need range measurement).
A compass
In degrees. It has a GPS, but that is used primarily as one factor in species decision in the AI.
Just had a brief hands-on at Leighton Moss.
For a 32mm they are enormous, and enormously heavy. I felt like I was on the bridge of a battleship.
The in-vision display makes you feel like the Terminator, especially in compass mode with all the changing numbers.
Didn't have much opportunity to test the ID function, was just in the doorway looking into the garden. There were a few dots in the tops of trees. I did try it on a metal, stylised Robin sculpture, the Visio IDed it as a...
...Hudsonian Godwit.
For a 32mm they are enormous, and enormously heavy. I felt like I was on the bridge of a battleship.
The in-vision display makes you feel like the Terminator, especially in compass mode with all the changing numbers.
Didn't have much opportunity to test the ID function, was just in the doorway looking into the garden. There were a few dots in the tops of trees. I did try it on a metal, stylised Robin sculpture, the Visio IDed it as a...
...Hudsonian Godwit.
By all means, a kilogram is massive. Helps keep it steady. And the 10x magnification does limit effective range, just as if...
you were using 10x binos, which you are.
And nobody is going to force you to buy one.
I like it, but a lot of testing is waiting for me. So far, happy.
Per
Oh yes, almost forgot: it identified one of my cats quite brilliantly (based on head only, but)...
as Mus musculus, so she is renamed Hausmaus. She's now in a bad mood.
A magpie was not renamed, though, so there is hope.
Not sure I 'get this' logic.... people are missing not having what?
...missing the whole point of the AXV, what it's for.
So this is what I am missing 'it's an unobtrusive device that lets you use it while you're focused on enjoying being outside. People seem to be missing this."? What exactly is an unobstrusive device....allowing me to focus on enjoyment? The ultimate unobtrusive device would be with the naked eyes.... a pair of regular binoculars would come second. But this AXV appears to me as a distraction as one fiddles with everything to capture pictures and ID's etc.... So no, unobtrusive? Not in my book
Quite honestly, the idea of these things is getting a little more appealing to me.
1. I like the idea of a camera and binocular in one unit.
2. It has always been hard for me to mesh the binocular AND camera combo.
3. The price is astronomical.
4. I like new technology.
1. I like the idea of a camera and binocular in one unit.
2. It has always been hard for me to mesh the binocular AND camera combo.
3. The price is astronomical.
4. I like new technology.
