Did you see the Nikon Premier (re)introduction? Any details?
I just came back from SHOT SHOW 2009 in Orlando, Florida. Here are some very quick observations:
Leica: Nothing new in terms of binoculars. They had a few samples of their new Televid 82 spoting scopes on display. I observed that the focus did not change (as happens in other brands) when the zoom was changed on the eyepeice. That's cool! They had a new line of riflescoope comming and they announced a new attachment to their rangefinding binoculars that would allow two parties to talk with each other using these laser-equiped binoculars. Ofcourse, it only works with direct line of sight.
Zeiss: No new binoculars. They had a prototype of a spotting scope which had a digital camera integrated in it. A few new models of riflescopes including one with long eyerelief for handguns.
Swarovski: A khaki-brown colored 8x32 EL. A couple of new riflescopes. Nothing else.
Nikon: Nikon EDG spoting scopes were cool. They come with a zoom eyepeice (not that good) and two new fixed power (20x and 30x I think) eyepieces. One of these eyepieces had a very large concave lense at the end. Very intersting thing! The EDG binoculars were cool too. I loved the 7x42 and 8x32 EDG models.
That's all for now :)
So that's the Big Four out of the way did you try any of the other new lesser bins?
Did you see the Nikon Premier (re)introduction? Any details?
I had no idea that Nikon was coming out with EDG spotting scopes. I recently made the comment that I did not understand how they could get away with selling excellent ED scopes for $1300 while their binoculars were costing closer to $2000. I am guessing these new EDG scopes will be closer to $3000 than $2000....
...should have kept my mouth shut.