Hawke Endurance ED 8x42 Monocular - Green

I just got my new monocular. I am really happy with it. I felt bad that living in the desert, it'll never be as clean as when I unboxed it! Anyway, the lanyard is kinda cheap, and I couldn't figure out how to use the flat part of the lanyard through the flat slot in the monocular or the eyepiece cap. So, I used the thin cord part for that. Probably someday, the rubber (silicone?) will eventually tear). It wasn't 10 minutes before I lost the cap on the other lens cap. I figure that was probably inevitable. I was out with a friend who brought binocs and she was missing both her's, too. So given these minor issues, why do I give this 5 stars? Well, the image quality is great! Sure enough, that little protuberance with the focus wheel fits nicely in my hand (I have huge hands, FWIW). The image seems reasonably stable while scanning with the monocular. My purpose is to scan rock faces to look for petroglyphs. I can't recount how many times I've looked at far away rock faces and wondered it that's a natural 'peck' into the rock or a petroglyph too far away to resolve. I think this monocular will work great for me.

The Endurance ED 8x42 Monocular (Green) is an excellent compromise among a number of different features if, like me, you use it for quick acquisition and identification of wildlife, navigation aids and landscape features while moving through the landscape on foot or by paddling, such as when you are hiking and canoeing. No monocular is a substitute for high quality binoculars when watching wildlife over a prolonged period of time. On the other hand, no high quality binocular is so easy to carry on your belt and use quickly as a good quality monocular. I have owned and used four different monoculars during my trips in Midcoast Maine. These are the Stilnend 16x50, the Opticon Oregon 8x42, the Opticon Explorer WA ED-R and the Hawke Endurance 8x42 Green. Of these, I would say that the Hawke Endurance is the best overall for my purposes. The clarity is as good as the Opticon models, but the field of view is greater than the Opticon Oregon and is much easier to focus than the Opticon Explorer. The clarity of the Stilnend is not as good as either the Opticon or Hawke monoculars and I would not recommend it for that reason, if in fact it is still production. To make objective comparisons, I used all four models side by side with a Nikon Monarch 7 8x42 binocular. I was in the kitchen on a dark and cloudy day in January, identifying the clarity of bark, twigs, leaves and other objects in the backyard and the forest behind my house at distances of about 20 to 50 yards. The clarity of the Opticon models and the Hawke Endurance were about equal to each other but not quite as good as the Monarch. The Stilnend was distinctly less clear. The field of view is about equal in the Opticon Explorer, the Hawke Endurance ED and the Stilnend, but much less in the Opticon Oregon. I would say that for finding small birds in the brush and for identifying the species quickly the narrow field of view in the Opticon Oregon is simply inadequate. As a result of this test, I still think that the Hawke Endurance ED 8x42 Green is the best monocular overall in terms of the compromise between clarity, field of view, light weight and ease of use.

Bon rapport qualité/prix.

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Ich habe mir das Monocular HAWKE ENDURANCE ED 10x42 für den Einsatz beim Bogenschießen zur Zielbeobachtung bei Entfernungen von 10 bis 60m bestellt. Der Ablauf ist Schussabgabe, falls notwendig ein möglichst kurzer Blick durch Monocular, nächster Schuss. Deshalb lag mein Schwergewicht bei der Beurteilung auf leichte Bedienbarkeit und praktische Handhabung, weniger bei der optischen Qualität. Getestet habe ich am Schießplatz mit Stativ und im 3D Parcours ohne Stativ, bei strahlendem Sonnenschein und am Abend bei beginnender Dämmerung. Die optische Qualität ist gut, Stativgewinde ist vorhanden und die vordere Objektivabdeckung ist fix montiert um Verlust zu vermeiden, nur die hintere Okularabdeckung ist lose (leicht mit einer Schnur oder einem kleinen Kabelbinder zu beheben) Das Focussierrad ist leichtgängig daher ist die Bedienung mit einer Hand gut machbar aufgrund der Größe wahrscheinlich auch mit Handschuhen noch zu bedienen, eine praktische Gürteltasche, ein Putztuch, sowie eine Tragriemen und ein Aufbewahrungsbeutel sind dabei. Größe 143mm, Gewicht 325g, Sichtbereich auf 1000m ca, 100m Vorteile: Größe und Gewicht, praktische Gürteltasche und Tragriemen Nachteile: lose Okularabdeckung Fazit: Bis auf die lose Okularabdeckung sehr praktisch, deshalb habe ich mich für das Monocular HAWKE ENDURANCE ED 10x42 entschieden.