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Len Backus
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Posted: April/27/2009 at 17:36 |
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Does anyone have any experience comparing the 2 versions? Can you really see game better with the HD version?
I have a 10 (?) year old non-HD 12-40x60 and I wonder if it is worthwhile to upgrade. |
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rifle looney
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They tell me yes, I asked this same question a while back. but hold on you will get more answers. Welcome to the Optics Talk forum!
Edited by rifle looney - April/27/2009 at 19:04 |
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lucznik
Optics Master Joined: November/27/2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1436 |
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I'm sure what I am about to say about ED lenses is not going to be terribly popular, nevertheless... Let me start out by saying I love ED glass. I have a large ED spotter and I am very, very pleased with it. ED glass absolutely will allow you to see things better. It is especially important if you plan on doing such things as astronomy or digiscoping. It can also assist in making difficult bird IDs where very subtle differences in plumage color make a big difference. ED glass (or whatever name your particular brand choice is using) does this by bringing all of the colors back into as close to a single point of focus as is humanly possible. This reduces the color fringing or chrommatic abberation that is often seen in scopes and binoculars. However, in high quality scopes, so much of this color fringing is already so well controlled (even in non-ED models) that you have to actually look for it to see it.
What ED glass does not do is make a scope any brighter. It helps control light; it does not allow any more light through.
As a result, if your only purpose is hunting, even trophy hunting, ED glass is not particularly critical. It might be nice. It would certainly enhance the viewing pleasure. But, it isn't critical to success. Assuming you are comparing two otherwise identical scopes (Leupold Golden Ring FLPs, Nikon Fieldscopes, Minox MD62s, Swarovski STSs, etc.) it will not allow you to hunt any earlier or later. It will not allow you to see any more animals nor to "measure" the trophy potential of those animals any better.
If you are going to do digiscoping, astronomy, etc., then definitely get the ED scope.
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What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about?
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Len Backus
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lucznik
As someone what has poor color vision, do I benefit even less than most? "It would certainly enhance the viewing pleasure." How do you mean? |
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lucznik
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Edited by lucznik - April/28/2009 at 09:29 |
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What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about?
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big boar
Optics Apprentice Joined: February/26/2009 Location: ontario Status: Offline Points: 77 |
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Lucznik, thank you for that write up, you answered something I've been thinking about myself.
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muleycrazy
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Thanks for the good info.
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