I'm sure this has happens quite a lot. You read the great spec and blurb from the maker and see the big rrp price, do a search around and everybody is saying oh wow these are great, millions of stars awarded (ok maybe not just so many) and so you buy a pair and they are absolute rubbish.
I used to think my Bresser Everest 8x28 was bad and it isn't good but it is passible compared to this latest crap I got.
I give you the Visionary 8x22U. Bak4 prisms, fully coated bla bla. I'm guessing they didn't tell you it has plastic lenses as that's what it seems like. I think that's how they ditched the weight.
I actually cancelled a Carson Scout 8x22 to buy it and now it turns out the optics in my Carson Mini Scout 7x18 are way better than this Visionary although the build of the Visionary is probably better. The smaller Carson is actually sharper and better resolving and brighter and with more colour/contrast and the Visionary is apparently "HD" but it can't even obtain a sharp focus. The magnification looks out also as it seems more of a 9x power.
Fooking Hell. This may be getting the hammer treatment shortly. Ok maybe that might be a bit drastic. It does have a decent large view to it but it really does lack colour/contrast/and sharpness and it isn't particulary bright either.
So the real add should read. An ok binocular if you don't really want something that's actually good.
I wonder how it is that the cheaper smaller Carson Mini Scout has so much better optics?
I used to think my Bresser Everest 8x28 was bad and it isn't good but it is passible compared to this latest crap I got.
I give you the Visionary 8x22U. Bak4 prisms, fully coated bla bla. I'm guessing they didn't tell you it has plastic lenses as that's what it seems like. I think that's how they ditched the weight.
I actually cancelled a Carson Scout 8x22 to buy it and now it turns out the optics in my Carson Mini Scout 7x18 are way better than this Visionary although the build of the Visionary is probably better. The smaller Carson is actually sharper and better resolving and brighter and with more colour/contrast and the Visionary is apparently "HD" but it can't even obtain a sharp focus. The magnification looks out also as it seems more of a 9x power.
Fooking Hell. This may be getting the hammer treatment shortly. Ok maybe that might be a bit drastic. It does have a decent large view to it but it really does lack colour/contrast/and sharpness and it isn't particulary bright either.
So the real add should read. An ok binocular if you don't really want something that's actually good.
I wonder how it is that the cheaper smaller Carson Mini Scout has so much better optics?
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