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Luigi
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Reged: 07/03/07
Posts: 1560
Loc: Massachusetts
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New Canon 15x50 IS!!! Don't like em...
05/08/08 06:09 PM
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Just received a brand new pair of Canon 15x50IS bins. I find the views to be excellent. Bright, very good contrast, flat, and very sharp nearly to the edges. They're kind of bulky and heavy and I find this help me hold them more steady than I expected for 15x. Pushing the stabilize button settles the image down quite nicely, but it also introduces a slight fuzziness that comes and goes, but is there most of the time. It's worse panning up rather than down, and left rather than right. If I had to guess, I'd say the stabilization is done with digital circuitry and the update rate is such that rather than producing smooth corrections, it produces corrections with tiny steps. Bottom line: These are excellent 15x50 bins, but the IS compromizes their performance. 
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