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Originally Posted by Starkler
You also mentioned the panoptic to be "more comfortable". The 19mm panoptic I find quite short on eye relief. I generally equate generous eye relief and easy eye placement with viewing comfort. Can you expand on how the panoptic was more comfortable?
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It must be that the 19mm Pan ER + eyecup combination is a perfect match to the shape of my eye socket & cheek bones. With the Pan I just look, resting gently against the eyecup, and take in the full field of view with no blacking out or kidney beaning ever. I never need to consciously adjust eye placement with the Pan. Not so with the 13mm Nagler, the Strats, or with Bird's Radian or your XL that I've tried at Snake Valley. And when I barlow the Panoptic, the "perfect fit" is no more.
I believe I do prefer shorter ER than most people. Besides stand-alone EPs, just about every binocular I've tried (including some $500+ ones with 50-60mm aperture) has too much ER for me that I have to accommodate by learning how to position the binos farther from my eyes.