Nikon 8X30 EII Binoculars

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Still, on its own terms, the Nikon Z30 is an impressive camera. As we found in our full test and review, its comfortable grip makes for solid handling. The camera is easy to use one-handed, with the flip-around screen handy for self-taping. There’s no viewfinder, but a vlogging camera does not really need one, and it help keeps the weight down to a slender 405g. Not bad! And, really, the E2 should be way brighter. Nikon does definitely not keep up with the competitors when it comes to transmission. That was my main quarrel with the 8x32 SE already, it looked darker than the Habicht with its 96% transmission, and it is also - and this really annoys me - my only quarrel with the otherwise fabulous 8x42 EDG. The colour reproduction is on the warm red side, whereas the EDG 8x42 is neutral. The look of the E2 is warm-high contrast, which is fine and probably helped making this binocular popular. Here is the white paper test - a white paper photographed through the binocular objectives - with the white pulled down to a midtone to make colour casts more visible (full method described here): Any niggles at all? Not really! OK, It’s not waterproof, and I would have liked to see some rubber armouring covering the chassis, but I guess that might put some folk off( yes, some folk care more about how a binocular looks than what it delivers optically, I kid you not!). I’ve recently acquired an excellent Opticron SR.GA 8 x 32 porro that does have this armouring, which will help protect it against the elements that little bit better. It too delivers very fine images, just a notch below those served up by the Nikon. But in all honesty, simple common sense is all that’s required to keep it safe from the worst of the weather and more careful attention to long-term storage of the binocular will help keep it in tip-top shape.

aren’t. In fact, apart from Nikon’s own EII, you’d have to go to Swarovski Habichtsto get this quality in a porro-prism binocular now. Green-purple on objectives, green-yellow-pink on the eyepieces, greenish on the prisms. Low intensity. There’s not much to gripe about so far but what about the view? It’s wide and clean with good colours. There was some vignetting (dark edge shadows) when I scanned, but I don’t think that’s a big deal, and occasional flare/reflections. Wide means wide – the field of view is an impressive 145m@1000m. Sharpness is very good with a smidgeon of peripheral softness perhaps – but nothing that distracts. Brightness is good and chromatic aberration (colour fringing) is very well corrected – the ED glass helps with that. The Z30 is Nikon's third APS-C mirrorless camera to use the company's Z-mount. These smaller sensor models, called 'DX' by Nikon, have all been aimed at young content creators, but the Z30 shows the most commitment to that cause with an emphasis on vlogging and video streaming.Other Nikon mirrorless cameras, including the Z5, Z50, Z6 II, Z7 II, Z6 and Z7, use various types of tilting screens, rather than fully articulating.

A high-resolution full-frame model for serious enthusiasts and professionals, the Nikon Z7 II delivers a comprehensive shooting experience while fixing a few of the flaws of the first version. It’s got two card slots now, with a second UHS-II SD slot in addition to the CFExpress B/XQD slot from the original Z7. With a flip-around rear-screen and no viewfinder, the Nikon Z30 is pitched towards vloggers. Photo credit: Tim ColemanWith the Bresser porro I could not see the two moons close to the planet because of the too strong spikes. Watching the sky around Jupiter the Kite had an advantage against the Kowa, but barely noticeable despite the extra magnification. The above discussion did not consider the role of magnification though. The key point here is that the binocular will magnify those small angular differences and so help the eyes to spatially distinguish the objects better. So, for example, two objects at a distance of 190m and 200m will subtend an angular separation of 9.1′ and 8.6′, respectively in an 8x glass. The difference is about 0.5′, which is just on the cusp of discernibility under ideal conditions. The same result at 10x gives 0.6′; only a trifle better. So we may conclude that this 3D phenomenon all but vanishes in the Nikon E II 8 x 30 beyond about 200m distance. Please complete the form below for a quote - Please be as accurate as possible to help us give an accurate quote. The reason the EII looks more saturated than the Conquest is probably due to the EII's boost in the red. Allbinos doesn't have a light transmission graph for the Conquest HD, but if it's similar to the original Conquest in its color balance, you can see the difference in where each company puts the emphasis.