Thread: New Binos???

Do you have any I can steal @Sarvo ??

Originally Posted by suthy

Do you have any I can steal @Sarvo ??

No @suthy - I only get in to order now and to be honest my Swaro price is not that competitive now.
Leica - yes - but everyone on this thread bagged the be-jesus out of them so - prob better to just give up :-)

@Sarvo Sorry to hear that, I wasn't aware that Leica's are not liked here...

@Ryan_Songhurst Have you had hands on experience with the Kowa BD's?

Originally Posted by suthy

@Ryan_Songhurst Have you had hands on experience with the Kowa BD's?

Yea a mate has a pair in 10x and they're really nice for the money, I have used Trinovids and had some Conquests myself and would put the conquests ahead of the Tinovids but the Kowas ahead of all of them. I dont find leica glass to be true to colour and it annoys me, conquests were very easy on the eye and by all means a pretty decent bino they just showed a little bit more chromatic abberation and lost a few minutes on last light compared to the ELs I have now. As others have said there is a big step up in price between these middle of the range binos and the Alpha binos for not a lot of gain, but there is some gain there. Think theres a place in Motueka that imports the Kowa range, thats where my buddy got his.

I had no issues with Leica Geovid 10x42HD-B and the Mico SD Ballistic drops match all the way out to 800m after that need the phone app, the best bino’s I’ve ever used. Nice and simple transition from bino to scope, no mucking around between binos, a rangefinder, a GPS for environmentals and phone app. I would rather have better bino glass because spend more time behind them than behind the scope.