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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mfunnell" data-source="post: 3356742" data-attributes="member: 134332">OK, that's sort-of easy: at 30 meters in good light the Habicht has a good chance of picking up the spider web.  At low light, or dusk, or twilight, or less, any modern large-objective binocular with decent coatings will do better [*].  Perhaps not well enough to pick up on this putative spider-web (in my personal experience, the angle light hits webs has a lot more to do with that than you might think, and light can change by the second), but nonetheless better by a good margin.  In fact, at true twilight, I'd back my thoroughly ordinary 7x50 Celestron marine binoculars (complete with semi-useful recticle, and utterly useless compass) against any 30ish objective binocular at all.  Including my recently-purchased, alpha, very expensive, set of roof bins.  So what?  My tres ordinaire 42mm roof bins would do better too.  A lot better than my 30-ish "alphas".  Sometimes total quantity of light trumps most everything.   ...Mike[*]I have checked.  Modern coatings make an enormous difference - to a point.  I've also checked and know that my relatively inexpensive 10x50 lower-middle bins resolve considerably more than my 8x32 top-of-the-pops, alpha-grade, compact bins in low light.  For me, the compact bins win, simply because I'll use them more often because I'll have them with me.  Of course, their view in any kind of decent light is first-rate.  But without light, well: "Sometimes total quantity of light trumps most everything."  At that point saying "any lighting conditions above" is utterly worse than useless as condition for comparison.</blockquote>

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