BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 1470606" data-attributes="member: 56622">The Monarch and Northfork are Japanese.  The Chinese have apparently won the race (if there was one) to win the high quality view with a decently wide fov.I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea, the image on either the Monarch X or the Leupold Northfork is really quite nice.  The image difference can be seen when the binoculars are side by side with the ZEN.  The almost 2* wider fov is pretty noticeable too.Nikon made the actual fov the same 330' @ 1000 yds. for both the 10.5 and 8.5.</blockquote>