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<blockquote data-quote="Litehiker" data-source="post: 1231879" data-attributes="member: 54178"><p>teesquare,</p><p></p><p>You are correct, the Eliminator III sacrifices good glass to give good electronics/software/angle sensor. It is not a "dawn and dusk" scope. In fact few scopes are well suited for those conditions. </p><p></p><p>You can have huge objective bells but have mediocre internal lenses and the wrong shade of coatings and you will not get a good low light view. ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass is necessary for ALL lenses and multicoating tending toward the bluish end of the spectrum are what is necessary for good low light scopes. And this kind of coating is usually only sold to the military because civilian consumers want "natural" color rendition. </p><p></p><p></p><p>And you are correct that we will likely see the future Eliminator iterations get optically better <em>and</em> lighter. We can only hope. </p><p></p><p>Yeah, it's a heavy scope but it does a lot. It's just not for carrying up mountains at altitude unless you are exceptionally fit as I used to be when I was a cross country ski racer. ("The older I get the better I was." ;o)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Litehiker, post: 1231879, member: 54178"] teesquare, You are correct, the Eliminator III sacrifices good glass to give good electronics/software/angle sensor. It is not a "dawn and dusk" scope. In fact few scopes are well suited for those conditions. You can have huge objective bells but have mediocre internal lenses and the wrong shade of coatings and you will not get a good low light view. ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass is necessary for ALL lenses and multicoating tending toward the bluish end of the spectrum are what is necessary for good low light scopes. And this kind of coating is usually only sold to the military because civilian consumers want "natural" color rendition. And you are correct that we will likely see the future Eliminator iterations get optically better [I]and[/I] lighter. We can only hope. Yeah, it's a heavy scope but it does a lot. It's just not for carrying up mountains at altitude unless you are exceptionally fit as I used to be when I was a cross country ski racer. ("The older I get the better I was." ;o) [/QUOTE]
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