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Message: <blockquote data-quote="macrourus" data-source="post: 3491322" data-attributes="member: 43747">I've been using now since 1 month a new pair of LEICA NOCTIVID 10 x 42 ---- And since I am the Italian testimonial for Leica my reviews here and somewhere else may sounds too much in favour...however my proud has always been to be honest and direct...so, when I do not like something...simply I do not write anything !I have no time for technical comments and to report any technical data, all in all, to birders, what really means and care is THE USE in the field, and the real stuff.... Nude crude data could say something, while direct use in the field it's what really we care about !I could first say, it is a binocular that at first it is hard to get "in confidence" with,  while with Swarovision Bin it is very easy to get quickly in "confidence"... so when I first got the Noctivid I was a bit disappointed by them... that's why "first impression" I think are never good!indeed, after using them day by day, any time of the day, during our MISC team harcore birding at Linosa islands, Sicilian Channel... I step by step fall in love with this Noctivid. It's like an important and unique love story with a complicated girl (or man!).... it is hard and it is difficult, but once you discover the secret it is the most important love of your life ! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> So, the Noctivid are indeed pretty heavy, and since I have problem to my neck this at first appeared to me to be a bad limit...then using them I got the impression that this weigth gave to me more balance in the hands, and that the binos were very robust and strong.  Also, the focus ring it is for me too high up, so it is in level with the little iron things for the strap... so that when focusing, my hands press too much against the edge and have some trouble for the first days before I got used on how to handle the bino!Having said this ... Once after some days, may be a week, I got used and got the confidence with the Noctivid.... I fall in love with it !!   The sharpness of the images, at any time of the the day, the complete lack of any colour deviance (in Swaro its too yellowish, in Zeiss too greenish and in leica was too bluish) its simply outsanding!   The 3D effect, reported in several webpages and also considered impossible, it is real to my eyes !!   It seems like be in a Steven Spielberg 3D fanta movie.... watching birds or the mediterranean macchia in Linosa where the birds were, was incredibile...I could feel like be there with the birds, touching them, almost "feeling" them or feeling as being there amonst the trees and bushes branches ... Just fantastic !never got before such feeling !!   I think once you are so much over the top like with the new Zeiss, the new Swaro and the new Leica, after all it is a matter of taste which one to buy... they all are simply GREAT!!   BUT, I should say I have one pair of each of those, and in these days I am going out birding with the Noctivid, as there is this feeling of be part of the NATURE, be part of the birds flock,l like flying with them !!   A sexy and emotioning experoience I never got before with a bino!!That's it...</blockquote>

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