I was looking at the Pentax DCF SP 8x43 and I liked it a lot, but it seemed like I had to be careful not to hold the eye cups too firmly against my face or the image would start to black out. I mentioned it to the shop owner and he said that the eye cups are not quite tall enough for the 22mm eye relief.
Has anybody else noticed this? Not a big deal in the grand scheme, but (for my budget) these are expensive binoculars and I'm afraid this would bug me.
I wonder if the same is true of the 8x32 model (it only has 17mm eye relief, but I wonder if the eye cups are correspondingly shorter). Or the DCF WP models (the 8x42 also has 22mm eye relief).
Has anybody else noticed this? Not a big deal in the grand scheme, but (for my budget) these are expensive binoculars and I'm afraid this would bug me.
I wonder if the same is true of the 8x32 model (it only has 17mm eye relief, but I wonder if the eye cups are correspondingly shorter). Or the DCF WP models (the 8x42 also has 22mm eye relief).