Scopes under artificial lighting.

[atblis]

Went to Sportsman's Warehouse for their huge going out of business sale. "At least up to 30% off" Whatever that means.

Typical liquidation contractor games. Nothing really on sale for those interested. The reloading stuff isn't too bad because their prices were ok to start with so 10% off is decent.

Anyways, was looking through some scopes.
Nightforce looked mehh, definitely not 1500 bucks good.
Zeiss Conquest looked like crap
Leupold VXIII looked horrid
Nikon Prostaff looked freaking awesome.

What gives? I am always floored how indoors scopes that I know are great scopes look horrible and some of the cheap (but decent) scopes can look so good.

 

[rcmodel]

Thing you always need to remember when looking at floor display scopes.

At least a gazillion people have already played with the eye focus adjustment before you got there.

rc

 

[atblis]

Yeah

Adjusted focuses. It was more of a brightness/color temp type of deal.

 

[black bear]

To me is the contrary, even cheap scopes look good in artificial light (well illuminated store)

Last night I was looking with several of my Leupold scopes into a piece of woods I have in the North side.

I tried, Leupold VX III 1 1/2x to 5X, Leupold Vary X III 2 1/2 x to 8 36mm Vary X II 1x 4x 20mm, Vary XII 3x9x 40mm Vary X II 3x9 by 50 mm heavy reticle.
All looked great (at night, but not pitch dark).

My last two were a VeryX III 1 1/2 to 5x Illuminated reticle and a VaryX III 31/2x to 10x 50mm Illuminated Reticle. This last one was oustanding, I can see with this one what I cannot see with the naked eye, ot the others, was like the moonlight was on.



Black Bear

 

[JimKirk]

As a Photographer...I can tell you indoor light is beast to deal with... fluorescent lights come in several color tempertures, from green to orange to blue and about anything in between. If you factor in the color temp of bulb types .... the halides and all the other types ...indoor light stinks! What you may find ..is any combination of types mixed ....talk about light soup! Then factor in scope lens coatings ...just look at the ends of different scopes and look at the color of the coatings ...each color filters out different colors! So I would only judge a scopes under natural light and you would have to have all the scopes present at the same time ....unless you have a lab and ( I would say a bank, that is no good now) ...that would be hard to compare all at the same time and even if you could natural light changes by the minute too! Ever wonder why Photographers carry all those huge color corrected lights around? Now you know.

Jimmy K

 

[lipadj46]

Also remember a scope on a lower zoom setting will be generally a lot brighter than a scope set on a high zoom setting. Also as others have said you cannot tell anything about looking through a scope in a store. I laugh when people say they looked through a scope in gander and it looked way better than another one. Does not mean a thing.