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- adjective Having multiple
coatings .
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Examples
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I think the Rifleman series Leupold is a nearing piece of junk status with 1/2 MOA friction stops and not having fully multicoated lenses.
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The prisms are phase coated (a high end feature that many fully multicoated binos don't have).
I'm considering buying a pair of Cabela's Pine Ridge roof prism binoculars. 2009
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If they go so far as to phase coat, shouldn't they be fully multicoated as well?
I'm considering buying a pair of Cabela's Pine Ridge roof prism binoculars. 2009
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Concerning the VX-II and VX-III lines; the older ones are optically and mechanically the same except the VX-III lenses are fully multi-coated and the VX-II exterior lenses are multicoated, but not all internal lens surfaces are coated, but not multicoated as I recall.
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I think the Rifleman series Leupold is a nearing piece of junk status with 1/2 MOA friction stops and not having fully multicoated lenses.
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If they are phase coated but not fully multicoated, they're practically useless.
I'm considering buying a pair of Cabela's Pine Ridge roof prism binoculars. 2009
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They mention nothing of the rest of the optics being fully multicoated.
I'm considering buying a pair of Cabela's Pine Ridge roof prism binoculars. 2009
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Concerning the VX-II and VX-III lines; the older ones are optically and mechanically the same except the VX-III lenses are fully multi-coated and the VX-II exterior lenses are multicoated, but not all internal lens surfaces are coated, but not multicoated as I recall.
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The objective lenses, which are the most important lenses on any binoculars, are multicoated; all of the other glass-to-air surfaces have single-layer magnesium fluoride coatings.
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An especially impressive quality of the fully multicoated Nikon is its exceptionally high twilight factor of 24.5 (calculated by multiplying the power by the objective diameter, in millimeters, and then extracting the square root).
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