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Description of Swarovski Habicht Binoculars

Swarovski Optik satisfies its customers with Habicht series for 45 years. These traditional Porro-prism binoculars provide conventional aesthetic design with modern high-quality optic implementations. One of the best Porros on the market provide extremely bright images with up to 96% of light transmission that performs extremely well in low-light conditions even with 30mm models. The visual experience with Swarovski Habicht is also extremely colorful and razor-sharp. Very attractive traditional design comes in two different armoring. You choose between green rubber armor that protects them against abrasions and corrosion or you can choose a traditional black leather armoring. Habicht has an excellent performance to weight ratio, stunning close focus and 3D look you will never find in any other poor prism binoculars. They are also waterproof, dustproof and submersible with nitrogen gas filled into light Magnesium body. They can be easily used in harsh weather conditions or when facing a difficult terrain in safari, law enforcement, military, navy and other marine applications.

The best features

Swarovski Optik produces this traditionally build Habicht binoculars for 45 years. The new generation of Habicht models provides classic aesthetic design with modern optic implementations, using the best materials and advanced technology. You can choose between two Habicht armoring type, depending on what your primary observations are. Habicht offers three models with 7x42, 8x30 and 10x40 parameters in black leather and 7x42 and 10x40 with green rubber armor. Black leather texture combined with a metal is less durable but this traditional design is definitely perfect for any enthusiast that loves to observe the great outdoors. If you tend to use these binoculars for generations in difficult terrain and extreme weather conditions but still want the same high-quality optical performance, you can choose Habicht with green rubber armoring (“GA”). This extremely durable setting provides protection against corrosion, impacts, abrasions and significantly reduces noise. These binoculars are also watertight, which is very rare among the Porros. They are filled with Nitrogen gas, making them waterproof and fog-proof. Internal condensation due to temperature fluctuations will never be an issue and they are also submersible to a water depth of 3 meters. One of the most lightweight Porros on the market are also convenient for observations for extended periods of time.

Optical properties

Porro-prism Habicht series provides incredibly bright images due to Porro types of prisms. This very wide building type draws in plenty of light even into the compact-size objective lenses. Without any major loss, Habicht provides up to 96% of gathering ability with the help of multi-coatings on all lenses and prisms (Swarotop). Excellent light transmission offers incredible performance even in the dim light situations. The images are also razor-sharp and colors extremely vibrant providing very natural feel. They also offer stunning 3D images you’ll definitely never find in any roof prism binoculars and very good close focus, very convenient for macro observations. Habicht has a stiff central focus knob and loose right-eye diopter and should be tried on before purchasing them, since they are lacking a mechanism of twistable eyecups for setting a proper eye-relief.

Other features and acessories

Swarovski Habicht includes accessories such as rain-guards, plastic pouch and neck strap.

Features of Swarovski Habicht Binoculars

Multi-coated lenses (Swartop)
Phase Correction
Dielectric Prism coatings
BaK-4 Prisms
Magnesium Body
Leather or Rubber Armoring (GA models)
One-position Eyecups
Central Focus Wheel
Right-eye Diopter
Tripod adaptable
Wider Angle (W models)
Waterproof and Fog-proof (nitrogen gas purged)
Submersible (3 meters)

Accessories of Swarovski Habicht Binoculars

Rainguards
Plastic pouch
Neck strap
Lens cleaning cloth

Available models of Swarovski Habicht Binoculars

Habicht 7x42/ 7x42 GA	Short-range, low-light observation model with traditional or rubber armoring
Habicht 8x30 W	Short-range, daytime, wide-angle observation model
Habicht 10x40W/ 10x40 W GA	Long-range, low-light, wide-angle observation model with traditional or rubber armoring

Warranty Terms and Conditions

Swarovski Optik have 10 years of warranty valid only when warranty/service document has been dated, stamped and signed by the Authorized dealer on the day of purchase.

You can learn more about our own warranty policy on the following link:

https://www.optics-trade.eu/en/warranty-policy.html

No matter what happens to your binoculars, we will be here to help you.

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General properties

Hunting in low-light situations at dusk and dawn or even at night is especially popular in Europe and many binocular manufacturers are producing binoculars that are especially good in such situations.

Low light binoculars offer exit pupils with a diameter of approximately 7mm, which is the maximum value the human eye can use.

Low Light binoculars also offer very high light transmission rates and are built to gain as much light as possible.

Common features:

50 or 56mm objective lens diameter
High light transmission rate
7x or 8x magnification
Porro prism or Abbe Koenig prism system
Individual focusing for each eye (common in some low-light binoculars)
Exit pupil in diameter of at least 6mm

Importance of light transmission rate

The light transmission rate is of paramount importance in Low Light Binoculars because when using binoculars in low light conditions it is very important that all the light captured by the objective lens comes to the eye.

The light transmission rate depends on:

The quality of the glass,
The quality of the coatings on the lenses,
The prism type (Abbe Koenig and Porro are better than the Schmidt-Pechan, where up to 8% light is lost when compared with the first two).

Objective lens and magnification

Objective lens

It is very important that Low Light binoculars have a very large input lens (most often 50 or 56 mm ) in order to capture as much light as possible.

Magnification

By increasing the magnification, the exit pupil gets narrowed, so we see a less bright picture with binoculars with higher magnification. For this reason, the most common magnifications are 7x and 8x.

8x56 is the most optimal configuration, as the 56 mm objective lenses collect a great amount of light, and the 8x magnification has an exit pupil diameter exactly 7 mm which fits the human eye best. 7x50 configuration is slightly less common but usually more compact, also offering 7 mm exit pupil diameter. 8x56 and 7x50 are the golden standard for binoculars designed for using at dusk and dawn.

Importance of exit pupil diameter

It is optimal that the exit pupil diameter is exactly as large as the eye can widen. In a healthy eye (up to 50 years of age), the pupil can expand up to 7 mm.

The gain of light that passes through the binoculars is 100%. For those who are older and their pupil diameter does not expand up to 7 mm, the light gets lost, but still the binoculars with 7 mm exit pupil diameter remain the most comfortable binoculars to watch through.

Older people can choose8x50 or 8x42 in order not to carry such heavy binoculars and still see a bright enough picture. They will, however, be less comfortable to use, compared with 8x56.

Importance of prism type

Porro and Abbe Koenig prisms have a significantly better light transmittance, and therefore, in Low Light Binoculars we tend to this type of prism and not the Schmidt-Pechan. 8x56 configuration will be notably brighter with Abbe Koenig or Porro prism than with a Roof/ Schmidt-Pechan prism.

Binoculars with Porro prism

The design of Low Light Binoculars with Porro prism remained the same until today. This type of binoculars offers excellent light transmission. Usually, they have separate focusing for each eye. Their biggest advantage is excellent water tightness and the fact that they can be bought at a good price. The disadvantage is that they are extremely large and less comfortable than those with a Roof prism and they are heavy.

Low Light Binoculars with Abbe Koenig prisms

This is currently the most modern trend among Low Light Binoculars and is the best possible, as far as ergonomics and light transmittance are concerned. With this kind of binoculars, you get a light transmittance of a Porro prism and compactness almost the same as from the Schmidt Pechan prism.

Usually, these binoculars are larger with longer barrels. Their main disadvantage is high price and limited choice; only Zeiss, Docter and Swarovski are manufacturing them.

Binoculars with individual focusing

This system is only found on Porro binoculars. These binoculars are perfectly sealed against the ingress of water. Focusing is only set once in good light conditions and then we can leave it since it works well in all conditions.

They are a good solution for low light use because with a central focus you usually get confused in the dark, you do not know if it's sharp enough or not because you do not see well in the dark.

The big disadvantage is that the close focusing distance is very long (from 15 to 20 m onwards).

Binoculars with central focusing (left) and binoculars with individual focusing (right) Source: Optics Trade

Best Compact Low-Light Binoculars

There is no such thing as compact Low Light Binoculars - but some are smaller. The only ones who have succeeded in making slightly smaller low-light binoculars are Zeiss and Swarovski.

Best Zeiss Compact Binos

Zeiss offers a combination of special HT glass, Abbe Koenig prism and finishing T * coatings (8x54, which is about 20% smaller and lighter than the classic 8x56 binoculars with the same brightness, some also say it is the brightest pair of binoculars in the world).

Best Swarovski Compact Binos

Swarovski Habicht 7x42 has a Porro prism and is extremely lightweight and useful for hunting in the dark.

Difference between Low Light binoculars and NV Optics

As mentioned before, Low Light Binoculars perform great at dusk or dawn, but seeing in complete darkness is an entirely different thing. Compare to low-light binoculars seeing with NV Optics on a pitch-dark night is much better. However, NV Optics is not the best choice when there is some light (dusk or dawn). Too much light can cause some real damage to the cathode (image intensifying tube), which means that NV Optics can not be used in the day time.

Besides the fact that Low Light Binoculars can be used at the daylight, the resolution and image details are also much better. The image quality and sharpness are notably worse when it comes to the NV Optics (mainly Digital), and magnification is also lower as with low-light binoculars. In essence, this is also one of the reasons why image details are better seen with low-light binoculars.

Another useful feature of binoculars is that they can be adjusted to different light levels, but the downside is that they are more prominent and much more massive than NV Optics.

Importance of lens coating

Optical devices have a lot of glass surfaces in their optical construction. If the manufacturers weren't using special coatings on the glass surfaces, a lot of light would be lost when traveling through the optical device. Zeiss was the first company to realize that coatings on the glass surface help minimize the loss of light.

Before the use of coatings, the light loss was around 30-50%. With added coatings, the decline was only about 20%. Another useful feature of applying coatings to the lens is the absence of the flash.

The application of different coatings on the glass surface has a very beneficial effect on the light transmission rate and helps to improve the optical performance of the device.

Different ways of applying the lens coatings:

Coated: some lens surfaces are coated with one anti-reflective layer of material (usually metal or similar)
Fully coated: all the surfaces on all lenses in the optical device are coated with one layer of material
Multi-coated: some lens surfaces are coated in multiple layers
Fully multi-coated: all glass surfaces are coated in multiple layers

Today the most famous and popular lens coatings are T*Coating from Zeiss and Diamond coating from Steiner. T*Coating eliminates the effect of stray light, while Diamond coating delivers the best clarity and contrast.

Low Light performance and quality of Range Finding Binoculars

In general, the rangefinding technology lowers the light transmission of binoculars. This means that for proper use in low light conditions, the objective lens diameter has to be around 56mm. Only the best rangefinding binoculars with excellent optical performance do not have a problem with light transmission rate, while binoculars of lower quality suffer from it.

Best Rangefinding Binoculars for use in Low Light conditions

Leica Geovid 8x56 3200.COM,
Leica Geovid 8x56 HD-R 2700, and
Zeiss Victory RF 8x54.

Best Low Light Binoculars for hunting

The best low light binoculars are made by

Zeiss,
Steiner,
Swarovski, and
Fujinon.

Best Zeiss Low Light Binoculars

Zeiss Victory HT series features Abbe Koenig prisms and special HT glass, which was made especially for observing when light conditions are not ideal.

Best Steiner Low Light Binoculars

Nighthunter series from Steiner is famous for its usability in low light conditions, and fully-multi coated glass. The series features Porro prisms, which perform great in low light. Porro prisms also offer a focusing system separated for both eyes.

Best Swarovski Low Light Binoculars

SLC binoculars are the first and only binoculars from Swarovski that features Abbe-Koenig prisms. Thanks to the fully-multi coatings on all lenses, the image is razor-sharp and free of any distortions.
Another great low light pair of low-light binoculars from Swarovski are Habicht 7x42 GA. Binoculars with Porro prism provides incredibly bright, colorful, and sharp images. It comes with green rubber armor for protection against corrosion and abrasions.

Best Fujinon Low Light Binoculars

The last on the list of best low light binoculars is Fujinon 7x50. Like Nighthunter binoculars, Fujinon features Porro prisms and individual focusing system. It provides focusing on each eye separately, which is a significant advantage since you can set it only once. Once the system is set, the eyes focus on different distances by themselves.

A short presentation of Low Light Binoculars is available here.

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Swarovski Habicht Binoculars

Description of Swarovski Habicht Binoculars

The best features

Optical properties

Other features and acessories

Features of Swarovski Habicht Binoculars

Accessories of Swarovski Habicht Binoculars

Available models of Swarovski Habicht Binoculars

Warranty Terms and Conditions

Swarovski Habicht 7x42 GA

VIDEO

General properties

Common features:

Importance of light transmission rate

The light transmission rate depends on:

Objective lens and magnification

Objective lens

Magnification

Importance of exit pupil diameter

Importance of prism type

Binoculars with Porro prism

Low Light Binoculars with Abbe Koenig prisms

Binoculars with individual focusing

Best Compact Low-Light Binoculars

Best Zeiss Compact Binos

Best Swarovski Compact Binos

Difference between Low Light binoculars and NV Optics

Importance of lens coating

Low Light performance and quality of Range Finding Binoculars

Best Rangefinding Binoculars for use in Low Light conditions

Best Low Light Binoculars for hunting

Best Zeiss Low Light Binoculars

Best Steiner Low Light Binoculars

Best Swarovski Low Light Binoculars

Best Fujinon Low Light Binoculars

Slideshare Presentation of Low Light Binoculars

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