{"id":589,"date":"2018-09-10T07:43:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T07:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/intern\/sportsoptics\/birding\/en\/?p=589"},"modified":"2020-11-19T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:03:41","slug":"victory-sf-binoculars-for-nature-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/victory-sf-binoculars-for-nature-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory SF: Binoculars for nature lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-review-by-david-fisher\">Review by David Fisher <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I was keen to try my ZEISS Victory SF 8\u00d742 Binoculars as soon as they arrived. Normally I would be testing them out on birds, of course, but the day of their arrival, I had planned to go Badger watching. So I christened them in the gloom of a wood at dusk, initially watching a Robin on the ground in front of the set and then on the Badgers themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wasn\u2019t disappointed&nbsp;\u2013 in fact, I was pleasantly impressed. They were bright and razor sharp, even in the fading evening light. I was able to watch the animals long past the time when I would be able to see them properly with my naked eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/iStock-KristianBell.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"591\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/?attachment_id=591\" class=\"wp-image-591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/iStock-KristianBell.jpg 980w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/iStock-KristianBell-600x299.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/iStock-KristianBell-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/iStock-KristianBell-640x319.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">A secretive mammal native to the British Isles looks up from an early-evening forage.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/iStock-fungirlslim.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"592\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/iStock-fungirlslim.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/?attachment_id=592\" class=\"wp-image-592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/iStock-fungirlslim.jpg 980w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/iStock-fungirlslim-600x299.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/iStock-fungirlslim-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/iStock-fungirlslim-640x319.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Pair of wild little owls with young owl looking at adult  (Athene noctua)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a \u201cwild\u201d setting so naturally, the animals were unhabituated and nervous. It was essential to keep completely still \u2013 I couldn\u2019t afford to keep raising and lowering my bins and risk spooking them. I watched through the bins continually becoming grateful for their new design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully my arms didn\u2019t feel the least bit tired when the animals finally moved away from the sett and out of view. As we left the wood a Little Owl called, and scanning quickly, I was able to spot two of them in a tree across the width of a large field&nbsp;\u2013 only silhouettes it\u2019s true, but readily identifiable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> THE FOCUSING WHEEL, NOW CLOSER TO THE EYE-PIECE, WHICH HAS CREATED THE PERFECT BALANCE AND FEEL OF THEM BEING COMPARATIVELY LIGHT. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/Victory-SF-Review.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-593\" width=\"980\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/Victory-SF-Review.jpg 980w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/Victory-SF-Review-600x299.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/Victory-SF-Review-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/Victory-SF-Review-640x319.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 770px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The next morning I used them in my back garden and was impressed with the colour rendition,&nbsp;which looked extremely accurate to what I saw with the naked eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minimum focusing distance was very appealing, allowing me to focus on the butterflies on my Buddleia with no problem at all! I am now looking forward to testing my bins with the next Sunbird tour abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review on the Victory SF 8&#215;42 binoculars by David Fisher, Director of Sunbird Tours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"topics":[],"yst_prominent_words":[341,342,343,344,345,346,347,348,349,350,351,352,353,65,340],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experience1"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"David Fisher","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/author\/davidfisher\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/David_Fisher_-_Zeiss-600x299.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/category\/experience1\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Experience<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Experience<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 8 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 10, 2018","modified":"Updated on November 19, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 10, 2018 7:43 am","modified":"Updated on November 19, 2020 3:03 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}