brocknroller
porromaniac
Karen:
Brock means well, of all the posts on BF, he seems to have the largest
sensitivity to the rolling ball. I have yet to induce it in any binocular I've tried.
I do remember someone did refer to him as "Brocknrollingballer', I am not
sure who that was but someone may know.
From what I've seen you post, you are so far happy with your purchase, and
good for you. Enjoy your quality binoculars.
Jerry
Of course, I mean well, and Karen thanked me for cluing her in on the "rolling ball" issue and the fact that it might take some time to adjust to it if she does see it.
And I was just "clowning around" about the bubble nose. "-)
While I admit those poor souls who see "rolling ball" are in the minority, and I might have griped about this issue more than others (or perhaps articulated the issue better - yeah, let's go with that , I do not think I deserve the dubious distinction of being in a class by myself when it comes to seeing "rolling ball".
As anyone who has followed the more recent discussions of this issue in the SV EL knows, not everyone is pleased with the new design, and there were enough buyers/samplers who found the "rolling ball" objectionable in the SV EL to raise the issue above the status of rumor to the point where Holger wrote an article about it (good read and more accessible than his technical report on the globe effect):
http://www.holgermerlitz.de/globe/globe_faq.html
If we are to take to heart Holger's statement that "the approach [of low pincushion] chosen by Swarovski may imply that the globe effect appears undercorrected to the average binocular user" then how much greater must this apply to the full sized LX/LXLs, which have no pincushion at all?
For my eyes, Nikon achieved the right balance with the EDG and SE - not too little pincushion, not too much.
The EDG and SE prove that designers can use field flatteners to sharpen the edges of bins w/out eliminating pincushion or even greatly reducing it.
Though Nikon may never admit it, I suggest that the gripes about the "rolling ball" in the LX/LXL's from "greasy wheels" like me might have been the reason or at least been a contributing factor to why Nikon chose to go with a more balanced design for the EDG.
And they will be rewarded for that effort as soon as my pig's feet jars are filled with quarters (I also have four gold plated dollar coins in there now).
Brock
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