Dunkield Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 Not the drinking sort the other ones . . Had a quick look through some high end bins from Swarovski, Zeiss and Leica at the weekend, the most impressive (well as much as you can tell at a fair) were these: http://us.leica-camera.com/nature_observat...ravid_hd_range/ Fearfully expensive but still very nice, I will wait until my Zeiss's cough out before I change them though - hopefully not for another 5 years or so. I doubt it is much of a scoop but talking to a couple of people who confirmed, well sort of, that Leica will be entering the scope market at some point, probably at one the trade shows next year. That will turn the the big 3 into the big 4, if the rest of their products are anything to go by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadeye ive Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 Concerning scopes not bins Having got a couple of schmidts ,a leup vx III and a cheap webley platinum i have to say the latter is just as good to my eyes in poor light conditions and has deliverd perfect service for 8 years but I'll be the first to admit I'm a Scope snob Do you think it's like when buying perfume for the MRS .............Part of the appeal and what gives the brand it's status is the price Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPARKIE Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 no i think its got a lot to do with the smell of it you could bottle fox pee and give it a posh name and high price but if it dont smell nice it wont get bought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGalway Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 The Leica scopes will make for interesting conversation. I've the CRF 900 rangefinder and find the glass to be very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted July 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 Concerning scopes not bins Having got a couple of schmidts ,a leup vx III and a cheap webley platinum i have to say the latter is just as good to my eyes in poor light conditions and has deliverd perfect service for 8 years but I'll be the first to admit I'm a Scope snob Do you think it's like when buying perfume for the MRS .............Part of the appeal and what gives the brand it's status is the price I know what you are saying Ive, and few sceptics will say 'you are only paying for the name, they are all the same' yada yada yada But. I was out with Sgt Bang on one of my permission last week, we were in the car driving up and down a track shooting rabbits each side. As it was getting very dimpsy, I was driving (very slowly) scoping round through my bins as i did. I spotted a rabbit that was only 15 yards away, but he couldn't see it through naked eyes. I said "I will show you where it is, by shooting it" Brought the gun up and it wasn't there. Looked back through the bins and it was Did this 3 times and then I just memorised the picture from the bins view and transposed that to scope view and shot the brown blob. (before anyone says anything it was all against a decent backstop and the only other blobs were clods of earth etc etc) You know that gun and scope, it is the Meopta 7x50, so a reasonable scope, and the bins are 7x42 The difference was down to quality, without the bins I would never have seen the thing in the first place. Last time out on his permission in poor light I was counting rabbits up to 5 or 6 at a time and he couldn't see any, only when we swapped bins could he see them and then they disappeared for me, and his bino's aren't that shoddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadeye ive Posted July 30, 2008 Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 I know what you are saying Ive, and few sceptics will say 'you are only paying for the name, they are all the same' yada yada yadaBut. I was out with Sgt Bang on one of my permission last week, we were in the car driving up and down a track shooting rabbits each side. As it was getting very dimpsy, I was driving (very slowly) scoping round through my bins as i did. I spotted a rabbit that was only 15 yards away, but he couldn't see it through naked eyes. I said "I will show you where it is, by shooting it" Brought the gun up and it wasn't there. Looked back through the bins and it was Did this 3 times and then I just memorised the picture from the bins view and transposed that to scope view and shot the brown blob. (before anyone says anything it was all against a decent backstop and the only other blobs were clods of earth etc etc) You know that gun and scope, it is the Meopta 7x50, so a reasonable scope, and the bins are 7x42 The difference was down to quality, without the bins I would never have seen the thing in the first place. Last time out on his permission in poor light I was counting rabbits up to 5 or 6 at a time and he couldn't see any, only when we swapped bins could he see them and then they disappeared for me, and his bino's aren't that shoddy. Or it could be your left eye is more sensitive to light conditions and 2 lenses and eyes are better than one ...............The webley platinum quoted earlier for £150 is alot of glass for the money .As for it withstanding heavy knocks though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPARKIE Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 i noticed that i spotted a hare in the lamp about 50 yards away so got down on the floor to have a look through my smidt and bender 8x56. at first i thought it was a rabbit. as i got down i pulled the connector of the lamp.i could see the hares outline perfect but could not see it with the naked eye. too say the least i was really impressed as it was the first time i had bought a high end scope and would never of seen it through my hawke target 6-24x50 fitted to my 17hmr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oly Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 I know what you mean Stuart - the show wasn't the best conditions to really push optics...didn't you ask to take one home to try at dusk?!?! It will be interesting to see, but relating it to their other optics, one of my brothers is a self employed proffessional bird surveyor (note - not a bird conservationist!!) which basically means he get paid ridiculous amounts of money to look at birds (of the feathered type infortunately! ) for wind farm environmental impact statements, calculating compensation for farmers who allow migrating geese to eat their crops etc. Over the years he has had all sorts of top end scopes and bins - but for the last 10 years he has stuck to Swaro. He rates Lieca, just not as highly as Swaro - so it will be interesting, but it may not change things too much. Talking about his scopes, I always find it amusing that when scumbags have previously broken into his landy to steal his stereo they have always left the ~£10K scope and ~£3K bins on the back seat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted July 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 I know what you mean Stuart - the show wasn't the best conditions to really push optics...didn't you ask to take one home to try at dusk?!?! IF very big IF I bought a pair of those bins I would want to try them at both ends of the day. I got my Zeiss's secondhand from LCE and they met try them for 2 weeks before I had the option of returning them - quality shop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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