The new ZEISS Conquest HDX Binoculars - The ideal premium all-rounder (1 Viewer)

[Birdforum]

Are you ready to take your outdoor adventures to the next level? We are excited to introduce the new ZEISS Conquest HDX Binoculars, the perfect companion for your outdoor adventures. These binoculars combine premium optical performance, robustness, and carefully thought-out ergonomics to enhance your nature experience.
Learn More About The Conquest HDX

• Premium optics with the HD concept, including 90% light transmission, true-to-life colors and edge-to-edge sharpness
• Robust and durable design, built to withstand the elements and ensure reliability on outdoor adventures
• Fast, precise, and smooth focusing, even while wearing gloves
• Carefully thought-out ergonomics for comfortable handling, including non-slip grip, locking diopter, and adjustable eyecups

 

[NDhunter]

And the new Conquest model has adjustable eyecups, and phase corrected prisms.
Those are good things to have.
Jerry

 

[Tripp]

Any word on price? NM, Just googled, 1k US...same as original. Hmm

 

[Woen]

They are about 80 grams lighter (the 8x42) and the exit pupil distance is 16.5 mm in the new model vs 18 mm in the old.

 

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Are these available in the USA anywhere yet?

 

[james holdsworth]

And the new Conquest model has adjustable eyecups, and phase corrected prisms.
Those are good things to have.
Jerry

Along with a bi-directional focus wheel…

 

[Ignatius]

It becomes difficult to come out with new superlatives when you're flogging an old horse with a new hairdo. I feel truly sorry for those poor poor marketing twonks who have issues justifying their grossly inflated salaries.

 

[adhoc]

The wait for a useful comparison of HDX vs HD goes on. Until we see a side-by-side test (in BF or elsewhere) could someone please say: Have Zeiss (themselves) anywhere clearly stated, or even implied, that HDX is optically improved, at all and in any way, except for outer-field corrections resulting from a flatter field?

Seems to me that all the comments by others which say or imply this (in BF and elsewhere) that I have seen/heard are interpreting certain things Zeiss state in their website (maybe deliberately) which give that idea at first sight but when read just a bit more carefully are seen to possibly apply to the previous HD as well. The OP of this thread, by Zeiss, says: "Premium optics with the HD concept, including 90% light transmission, true-to-life colors and edge-to-edge sharpness". Note HD, not HDX. Transmission remains the same. Is the color rendition changed?

 

[GrampaTom]

Along with a bi-directional focus wheel…

Not sure what this might be James. All of em go left-right (or in-out) as far as I know. Isn't this 2 directions or... what're you thinking, please?

 

[GrampaTom]

The wait for a useful comparison of HDX vs HD goes on. Until we see a side-by-side test (in BF or elsewhere) could someone please say: Have Zeiss (themselves) anywhere clearly stated, or even implied, that HDX is optically improved, at all and in any way, except for outer-field corrections resulting from a flatter field?

Seems to me that all the comments by others which say or imply this (in BF and elsewhere) that I have seen/heard are interpreting certain things Zeiss state in their website (maybe deliberately) which give that idea at first sight but when read just a bit more carefully are seen to possibly apply to the previous HD as well. The OP of this thread, by Zeiss, says: "Premium optics with the HD concept, including 90% light transmission, true-to-life colors and edge-to-edge sharpness". Note HD, not HDX. Transmission remains the same. Is the color rendition changed?

Amen

 

[Binocollector]

Not sure what this might be James. All of em go left-right (or in-out) as far as I know. Isn't this 2 directions or... what're you thinking, please?

I'm guessing he wanted to jokingly say that the things listed by NDHunter (also in jest to poke fun at the marketing) should be a given at this point and not a selling point, just like having a focuser working in both directions.

 

[GrampaTom]

I'm guessing he wanted to jokingly say that the things listed by NDHunter (also in jest to poke fun at the marketing) should be a given at this point and not a selling point, just like having a focuser working in both directions.

Ah, thanks! Missed it.

 

[tenex]

...interpreting certain things Zeiss state in their website (maybe deliberately) which give that idea at first sight...

You know, even though I'm not a fan of convincing concepts, some vagueness in marketing can seem understandable. Anyone who finally posts an HD-HDX comparison in ordinary language will be struggling to estimate the size of the sweet spot (to them), to compare aberrations in the outer field and so on. This is a task for technical reviewers, while the marketing department just has to write something reassuring for customers who don't really know or care how to do it themselves. The trap BF threads keep falling into (trying to parse the marketing blurbs) is impatient speculation on what the results should look like before we have any.