Thread: Leica Geovid HD-B vs Swarovski EL Rangefinding Binoculars

Something I forgot to note. The swaro doesn’t give you angle compensation past 1000m if that happens to be of concern. The angle compensation is not entirely correct past a certain distance either, maybe 700m we have tested it and it seemed out.
We did test some range finders against some survey equipment at 1 mile. Definetly used zeiss RF 10x42 and the sig bdx 3000. I think we use Ltd the leica aswell. Were all within 1m.
One difference with the Zeiss is it ranges on release of the button not press so is a bit steadier. The sig is better at longer ranges with the scan as it gets lost of hit attempts so it usually doesn’t fail to get a reading. When others can be surface dependant.
The Kahles probably has the poorest range finder 1000m reliable. Most others including the new vortex are effective to 1500m then target surface selective after that.
The furthest was the sig at over 4000m. Zeiss can work to 3300m with the 2265m furthest I had data but wouldn’t be accurate because of the bc in software would not have been degraded. Need the kestrel for that which can be used in the sig bino.