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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hauksen" data-source="post: 3584744" data-attributes="member: 142861">Hi Bill,Ah, that's really nice ... I guess due to the use of ambient light to illuminate the bullseye, it automatically adapts itself to the overall lighting conditions! (As long they're reasonably uniform.) Interestingly, the next generation of reflex sights after the Nydar seems to have been introduced by Weaver (as "Qwik Sight R-1"), the same company that produced the Weaver mounting rail. This rail allowed removal and re-installation of the sight without the need to re-zero it. My idea of a mount for the ED50 that improves on my test rig uses a NATO-standard rail, which is very similar to the Weaver rail, and I hope it will give the same kind of repeatable sight alignment.However, you certainly have a point with regard to using the sight with different scopes ... if the mount is rigid, you have to re-center the sight when you change scopes. With your method, the sight can be left as it is!Olympus has recently introduced the EE-1 reflex sight for cameras (shortly after I bought the Xtendasight rail) that is mounted on the camera hotshoe, too. It seems to be quick to zero, requring no tools to do so - judging by this video:<a href="https://youtu.be/gnTAbBSUHZk?t=112" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/gnTAbBSUHZk?t=112</a>It also folds down neatly when not in use, so it looks interesting for birders, too.Wow - works like a charm, thanks a lot for the tip!I had realized that the reflex sight was great to "hand over" birds to others, but I didn't realize you could do this directly with the binoculars! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />When I showed the reflex sight to my brother, who was fresh back from a guided birding tour, he had one look through the sight and immediately said, "Every bird guide should have one of these!" Seems that having one experienced guy pick up the bird in his scope, and getting the rest of the group to pick up the same bird wasn't always a quick and smooth operation <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Regards,Henning</blockquote>

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