As I mentioned on another thread, my wife was out of town which gave me an opportunity to set all of my bins out on a table and play with them, one against the other for a week. It was fun, and as usual the two SEs were my favorites.
Looking at them all lined up I noticed that only two of the six had modern adjustable eyecups, my 6x30 Yosemite and the 8x42 Ultravid, the rest were either older 1980s-90s vintage or the two SEs. Now I don't use glasses with my bins so I always leave the eycups all the way out. Excepting the old 1984 vintage Fujinon which has old hard rubber eyecups, I like all of the other rubber cups, especially the Nikon SEs. They are just flexible enough for me to squeeze my face against them and get that perfect sweet spot that falls between the click positions of my Ultravids for example.
I know we have had fantasy discussions of Nikon upgrading the SE with ED glass and modern eyecups. Are twist up eyecups a bigger deal to eyeglass wearers? Are there any non glass wearers that are ok with rubber eye cups as I am?
[QUOTE=John M Robinson;1751801] Are twist up eyecups a bigger deal to eyeglass wearers? [/QUOTE]
Short answer? Yes.
A well designed twist up eyecup (read: multiple stops), combined with an eyepiece that offers long eye relief, works for most everyone however.
I still find the rubber eye cups on my old Leitz 7 x 42 BN Trinovid easy to use. And it has very long eye relief too. My newer Leica 7 x 42 Trinovid BN has hard eyecups. I have no problem with them either. I don't wear eyeglasses.
Bob