I imagine this should be a fun thread.
I've had two, long since giveaways, an Olympus PCI 7-16x25 and an Opticron SR.GA 7-16 x 42. Both porro, the Olympus reverse
They were kind of fun and goodish at the low end of magnitude. I think another optical good intention but not one that has ever worked very well although I see they are quite often sold to the deciples of zoom, usually beginners as was my case back then.
I can't stand the narrow fov's but I see Bushnell do an xtra wide 5x or 10x dual mag with 25mm objective at about 550g which may be the closest compact style to anything remotely worth considering. http://www.microglobe.co.uk/bushnell-5-10x25-spectator-binocular-p-7323.html
Does anyone actually have a pair of compact zooms that are any good?
Or even any useful zoom bin and I don't just mean Leica and I think that even died.
I gues if you don't mind the narrow fov and usually fuzzy edges that get ever worse with a dimming view as the magnification increases and increasing difficutly in maintaining focus and steadiness then yes they are great?
It's one of those things that sounds good being able to have one bin and to change the magnification usually to zoom in on something. Works for scopes of course but bins?
Zoom monoculars seem equally as bad and yet they sell.
Why do people buy this rubbish? I think they try and convince themselves it's good when they really know it's unfortunately not.
So will anyone defend these zooms?
I can imagine the optic co's knowing they are rubbish but thinking what the heck if it sells some junk to naïve customers then give them what they want.
I can also imagine customers who are quite happy with a poor view which is probably the vast majority of people who buy bins. You only have to look at Amazon and all of the rave reviews for bins labelled as 18x21 or such!
Or is there a situation where all the negatives are actually outweighed by some advantage?
I've had two, long since giveaways, an Olympus PCI 7-16x25 and an Opticron SR.GA 7-16 x 42. Both porro, the Olympus reverse
They were kind of fun and goodish at the low end of magnitude. I think another optical good intention but not one that has ever worked very well although I see they are quite often sold to the deciples of zoom, usually beginners as was my case back then.
I can't stand the narrow fov's but I see Bushnell do an xtra wide 5x or 10x dual mag with 25mm objective at about 550g which may be the closest compact style to anything remotely worth considering. http://www.microglobe.co.uk/bushnell-5-10x25-spectator-binocular-p-7323.html
Does anyone actually have a pair of compact zooms that are any good?
Or even any useful zoom bin and I don't just mean Leica and I think that even died.
I gues if you don't mind the narrow fov and usually fuzzy edges that get ever worse with a dimming view as the magnification increases and increasing difficutly in maintaining focus and steadiness then yes they are great?
It's one of those things that sounds good being able to have one bin and to change the magnification usually to zoom in on something. Works for scopes of course but bins?
Zoom monoculars seem equally as bad and yet they sell.
Why do people buy this rubbish? I think they try and convince themselves it's good when they really know it's unfortunately not.
So will anyone defend these zooms?
I can imagine the optic co's knowing they are rubbish but thinking what the heck if it sells some junk to naïve customers then give them what they want.
I can also imagine customers who are quite happy with a poor view which is probably the vast majority of people who buy bins. You only have to look at Amazon and all of the rave reviews for bins labelled as 18x21 or such!
Or is there a situation where all the negatives are actually outweighed by some advantage?
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