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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rathaus" data-source="post: 3596098" data-attributes="member: 132018">I've had a few binoculars out which are renowned for their veiling glare. These would include the SV 8.5, the 8x30 Habicht, and the Nikon 8x30 Monarch 7 which appear to set benchmarks in glare.Many point out the fact that when we hold these binoculars up to light and look at the eyepiece, we can see the myriad of kaleidoscope type reflections in the eyepiece surrounding the exit pupil which is proof of the lack of baffling. People have also directly correlated this phenomena with the amount of veiling glare/flare which we will see through the binocular.I've made some comparisons under moderate viewing conditions and I've become slightly confused. When viewing the eyepiece of my Noctivid, it is as black as a cows innards and it gives me a wonderful view, the SV8.5 is lit up like a kaleidoscope and yet gives me a wonderful view, while the eyepiece of the monarch 7 is also lit up like a kaleidoscope and the same view is so milky it is unusable. It is likely that the Monarch 7 has even more visible scattered light in the eyepiece, but it is far far closer to the SV8.5 than the SV is to the Noctivid. There is no question that the Noctivid will easily outperform all of these binoculars under difficult viewing conditions, but I'm intrigued as to why, under so many viewing conditions, the SV performs so well while it's eyepieces are lit up like kaleidoscopes? I would say the same for the 8x30 Habicht. How can this happen? Rathaus</blockquote>

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