hey guys scott reekers here with Eastmans' hunting journal
and eastmans' youtube channel on eastmans' blog and i'm here today to
review from leica the geovid3200.com
it is a range-finding binocular with fantastic ergonomics
a range out to 3200 yards and its own app
and in this review i'm going to tell you all about each of those
so let's start off with the ergonomics the first thing is
and you will notice this as soon as you go pick this up let's say your local
sportsman's warehouse to try it out in your hand
what you'll see is that there is its body
is not straight a lot of modern range finders are
100 straight body it's a fairly standard feature
while leica was doing the research on their new geovids
their old ones were really blocky and so they wanted to make a big update with a
big splash they found out that their prisms
functioned really well with this bent tube and it just gave it
a level of clarity that they weren't able
to achieve otherwise and it fit fantastic in your hand
that is how that fits you can see it fits right here it helps you raise
because your your your thumbs are more comfortable and so
that's the first piece of the ergonomics that you're going to notice
the second piece that you'll notice is the four click
eye cups that give you different levels of distance between your eye and the
lens and the cups themselves are very
comfortable i spent eight hours a day for the last four days behind these
binoculars and i can tell you that these cups were very comfortable
and on top of that the eye strain was much less than many of the other
binoculars that i have tested less eye strain equals less of a chance of a
headache i'm a guy who's light sensitive to begin
with and so that makes for a much more pleasant
experience spending a lot of time glassing in the high country
so the next piece is these are range finding binoculars
one of the things that you think about with that is how easy is it to reach the
buttons for your range finder i've had some where you feel like you're
going way over here or having to twist your hand weird to get there
well that's not the case with this design from leica it's very easy to
reach button number two button number one and
that's how they label in their manual so when you go and use that for changing
some of the settings that's all you've got to work with
the laser sits right here so it's very true to center of where you're at
looking and so that's very easy to use you're not trying to
figure out where in the world is this thing shooting from that is very
easy to use so ergonomics are great when you look at
all the adjustments that you can make for your individual eye
very easy to use now another piece on the ergonomics
that i was really impressed with this whole time is i've had some
binoculars that really really struggle with staying
at the point of focus that you set it at not these
there's a little bit of kickback that stops them from getting bumped and so
there's tension built into your focus adjustment
that right there is worth having these binoculars around
just from a simple standpoint that you're always going to be
right where you set it before even pulling it in and out of this bino pouch
i was able to keep it in place and it worked very well so i was really happy
with that the next piece that i want to talk about
with the geovid3200.com is their app you now have an app
that communicates from this binocular by bluetooth that you can put the
individual settings for the rifle that you are using
and what that does is that gives you an individual setup
this accounts for holdover this this binocular also will give you your degree
of angle that you are looking at from where
you're sitting it tells you the angle of degree that you're
you're at so this is taking a lot of guesswork out of rifle shooting
and so if you're a precision shooter this is a tool that is going to make you
much more accurate and give you the readings and all of the
data that you need to use and process now another cool
feature that is here is the scan mode the scan mode
allows you to go from one target to the next to the next to the next to the next
without rearranging every single time that scan mode is really powerful
when you've got say a couple of deer or on a hillside that you're looking at and
you're wanting to pick okay what is all of my distance there
because as most of us know when we're shooting
at any big game animal they're not standing still
they're moving and so the scan mode will allow you to quickly
make your adjustments on the rifle if you're a turret guy it allows you to
make those adjustments very quickly and so that's something to really
consider and look at with this bluetooth the bluetooth also allows you to
communicate with your kestrel device if you're a precision shooter again and
really like to shoot those long distance and do the long distance shooting at the
range having that kestrel available is a
fantastic tool these binoculars will directly
communicate with a kestrel elite tool and so we've reviewed that product as
well so if you want to see how that would work and what it does
and how you compare it to the leica geovid 3200
that is possible that's kind of the technology side but what i also want to
tell you is something that um that's really cool
that leica did originally but is no longer a part of
this because now they have the app and the bluetooth technology
so you no longer have to worry about your sd card this 3200.com does not have
an sd card so you don't have to worry about putting that in
leica made a big splash was your ability to input
your ballistics directly into your binocular but that's no longer the case
with this binocular because bluetooth it communicates with
your phone most of us have our phones with us
because we use it for mapping tools we use it for taking pictures we take
great pictures with our phones now and so we also a lot of us are getting
video of different pieces of our hunt and so you can now have all the
ballistics on your app you can communicate with your kestrel
you have all of those settings here the next piece
that you have with this is what about the lenses scott
what is there to you know talk about and talk about with protecting your lenses
and things of that nature well there is a hydro coating that is
here on the lens it's actually an hcr is what it's called
and it will bead off these lenses very well now
here's another cool feature to think about
i'm not planning on throwing this into a into a pool
that's five meters deep but accidents happen let's say you're on a
trip to alaska and you're getting out of the boat
or something of that nature your binoculars could fall in
well your first thought is oh no i just lost some of my electronics
this is waterproof up to five meters deep my assumption is this if it's
waterproof up to five meters deep that's going to give you enough
time to get all your clothes off dive in and go after the things because if you
bought a range-finding binocular from leica you're going to want to go after
them you're going to want to get the magnet or you're going to go diving in
after it i certainly know that i would rest
assured that with that promise from leica that these are safe
up to five meters under water that you will have
functioning binoculars when they come back up that in and of itself
is a fantastic feature because that that is almost like having a
water warranty of sorts so another thing i wanted to cover is
is this true to distance well i would be lying to you if i said that i got it out
to 3200 yards but i did get it out to 2900. if i can
get out to 2900 and that was physically as far as i could get this i
had nothing further i could range to get it out to 3200 yards or closer
so that is exactly how far i got it 3200 stands for the 3200 yards
in meters that is 2950 approximately yards that you can get
so this binocular is true to form it does exactly what it said it was going
to do i was very happy with this performance
and i would gladly take these on any trip with me
into the high country so what about for archers like i know a
lot of archery guys they're they're tailing bowls and things like
that and so you want some different clarity mine are 10 by 42 but if you
only want the eight power that is available you can also get the
eight by 56 so you have a little bit wider scope of view when you're looking
for those archery hunts i was able to get this to
five yards and so that's pretty close i don't know that you need to be ranging
at five yards most of you guys know you know if that at worst you have a 20 yard
pin a lot of guys have gone to using a straight 30 yard pin
and so that's how close this thing would do so
five yards all the way up to 3200 yards is accurate and as they claim
it worked just fine finally i want to close this out with
the practical side sometimes range-finding binoculars are known for
not having as much clarity as say their their non-range finding
comparisons or comparable binoculars i was able to pick apart a really big
buck with these binoculars i was able to see
that he was he was exactly what we were looking for
buck of a lifetime and he was also with another
really big typical buck that i could tell
what they were from far away did i still get the spotting scope on them
absolutely that's a fairly normal feature of hunting in the high country
but was the clarity good enough on these binoculars that i could definitely see
everything that i wanted to see in the high country far and away
and i arranged them both at 900 yards far enough away where i wasn't
disturbing them but i could tell what they were
so i had the clarity at 900 yards and further to see what i was looking at
so thanks for coming along for this review and it was a lot of fun to test
out this product from leica the geovid3200.com
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