BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="CliveP" data-source="post: 3350587" data-attributes="member: 85835">Hi FrankYes you need to get pretty close to the Carson to get the view. I actually find resting the part of my forehead, at the top of the nose between the eyebrows, on the focus knob, helps steady things a lot and of course gets me close in but I don't need to fold the eyecups down.I was wondering about the La-Scala version but it's hard even to get the correct specs on them unless you can see it actually printed on there in the photo. My Carson has blue lens coating but in all the photos online they are shown as green?I have yet to get out with the Carson for a proper try but just this evening trying my new Hawke Endurance 10x25 and the Carson at the back door I was well impressed with them both. The first Carson I got, the focus wheel seized solid so I'm hoping this one lasts and it seems ok so far and it's prisms seem better mounted than the first but the exit pupils are still basically square so there is some luck with what you receive. If the big brands were to make these then they would probably go for eye relief at the expense of fov and larger prisms so a larger bin and then might as well just got all the way to an 8x20.I think Pentax could do a brilliant version based on the Papilio but it would probably be larger than the Carson etc.I did a quick compare against my excellent 6.5x Papilio II and the Papilio is even brighter and clearer but the view is not as large as the 7x18 and the Papilio can resolve a bit more but it is about 3 times the size of the Carson.When I say the Carson is brilliant what I mean is that you almost don't expect to be able to see anything through a bin so small but this is certainly very much to my surprise and at this cheap point, very definitely not the case.It's great but my big Viking Vistron 8x25 is a lot more restful on the eyes in comparison but I wanted to try the 7x18 to see if it would be small and useful enough to carry more often instead of my Optima (Specwell) 6x16 monoc and although it gives a much better view I still think the monoc is the one that is much more easily secreted about the personage and I've come to like the monoc some, why I'm not entirely sure apart from it's size, which is just as well as I bought two the same:eek!::-O</blockquote>

Verification