![]() The Ultravid has had far less coverage in the forum than the FL. I am pleased to see your comments on FL vs. I asked one of the staff about it, and he said that they "never hear from the sales rep." One of the only shops in New Mexico that carries high-end binoculars used to handle Zeiss, but almost never does anymore. Let's put it this way: after many years selling optics, she is happy to carry two companies whose customer service she considers exceptional-Swarovski and Swift. I'm sure you have found that shop.Īt the risk of sounding like the dreaded anti-Zeiss, let me suggest that you ask the proprietor of the Wild Bird Center in San Carlos why she no longer carries Zeiss. I was able to compare several Zeiss and Swarovski models there. There is a Wild Bird Center in Walnut Creek that had a very good selection of binoculars, including Zeiss, in the recent past. I have visited several shops in the Bay Area. Maybe Zeiss needs to change something about they way the market their binoculars on the west coast of the U.S.? There are also quite a few active birders in this area. It's not as if there aren't people here without a good amount of disposable income. The idea that Zeiss is having a hard time keeping retail outlets is amazing. To my great surprise a store that is in the boonies (well, a very nice resort town on the California coast about 3.5 hours north of San Francisco) had Zeiss, Leica, Swarovski, Nikon and other brands of binoculars. Within the last year, two gun/sporting goods stores have dropped Zeiss binoculars (and kept Swarovski). The first to drop Zeiss was a telescope / binocular store. There were three retail stores selling Zeiss binoculars in the south S.F. IMHO, Zeiss is having a big problem in my area holding on to their retail outlets. Althouth, it would likely be smarter to use my money on one of the new light weight (Swarovski, Leica, Zeiss) 8x32s and not another 10x42.Ī more serious answer, the number of retail stores selling Zeiss binoculars in the San Francisco Bay Area have been shrinking. I'm seriously temped to buy a 10x42 Ultravid because I'm a Leica fan and I liked the way they felt. I could be very happy with either the Zeiss 10x42 FL or the Leica 10x42 Ultravid. I didn't try the Ultravid for focusing pase infinity and I should have and not assumed they were like my Leica BNs in focuser travel. The only reason I bought the Zeiss FL was it had a long enough focusing run past infinity so that I could use them without my eye glasses (something I likely won't do most of the time). I found the Leica 10x42 Ultravid more comfortable to hold. Oh, and a good looking woman walking across the street. We were looking at houses about 1/2 mile away across a small ocean bay and at old wooden water towers a few blocks away. This was in the mid afternoon with a sunny, cloudless sky. Maybe under different conditions we could see a difference. The image through both was so close that we could not honestly say which was better. Standing outside the store, two of us (bino nuts) were handing the FL and Ultravid back and forth to each other for nearly half an hour. The FL could focus a little closer and it had a little better resolution at the extreme edge of the field. I recently compared the 10x42 FL and 10x42 Ultravid at a store in northern California. I hope you can look through the 8x42 FL and 8x42 Ultravid. Sorry, I didn't see the review you mention.
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