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New Leupold vs. Burris
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<blockquote data-quote="thequickad" data-source="post: 15045" data-attributes="member: 1228"><p>Recently I read a review in GUNTESTS and found they actually use a photo meter to test brightness. Now this is more accurate and objective than looking through scopes with human eyes. And it clarifies the myth that Burris is brighter. Let's not forget Burris is bigger and heavier too. Here is how they test for brightness: </p><p></p><p>"Brightness. We put the scopes in a darkened room 20 feet away from a pure-white frosted, backlit screen to minimize hotspots. We aimed a 55-mm Nikkor micro (close focusing) lens attached to a Nikon 8008S camera (with the light meter set on center weighted) through each scope and focused it on the crosshair and centered the crosshair in the viewfinder. We then set the camera's light meter at 1/8 second and began stopping the lens down until we reached what the camera indicated was a properly exposed setting.</p><p></p><p>Our testers thought the <strong>Leupold's brightness was on par with the Burris and Bausch & Lomb scopes, and was slightly better than the Redfield </strong>in our test group. It is crisp edge to edge, and shooters could easily read 1-inch type at 50 yards on the 12X setting. The recoil test showed no apparent changes in the scope's tracking. Parallax was not a problem." <img src="http://images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>[ 05-17-2003: Message edited by: thequickad ]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thequickad, post: 15045, member: 1228"] Recently I read a review in GUNTESTS and found they actually use a photo meter to test brightness. Now this is more accurate and objective than looking through scopes with human eyes. And it clarifies the myth that Burris is brighter. Let's not forget Burris is bigger and heavier too. Here is how they test for brightness: "Brightness. We put the scopes in a darkened room 20 feet away from a pure-white frosted, backlit screen to minimize hotspots. We aimed a 55-mm Nikkor micro (close focusing) lens attached to a Nikon 8008S camera (with the light meter set on center weighted) through each scope and focused it on the crosshair and centered the crosshair in the viewfinder. We then set the camera’s light meter at 1/8 second and began stopping the lens down until we reached what the camera indicated was a properly exposed setting. Our testers thought the [B]Leupold’s brightness was on par with the Burris and Bausch & Lomb scopes, and was slightly better than the Redfield [/B]in our test group. It is crisp edge to edge, and shooters could easily read 1-inch type at 50 yards on the 12X setting. The recoil test showed no apparent changes in the scope’s tracking. Parallax was not a problem." [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [ 05-17-2003: Message edited by: thequickad ] [/QUOTE]
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