Placed an order with Cameraland today for the Meopta's. Put a couple hondo's down on them until they come back in stock. Should be a buy once cry once with these.
Well, it's never buying once around here lol.
First, 15x is a lot for general-purpose binos. Having spent several days on the Meota Meostars 15x next to my Swaro 15x, I'd say the Meostars are very nice, better in some conditions and not in others. You have to be on tripods to even begin to compare.
That said, I like the viewing experience better on almost all new-gen optics like the ZCO scope Swaro NL Pures, Mavin B.2 and probably will like the new offering like the Meopro Airs. The optics released in the last couple of years just seems to bring the images closer to our eye and deliver a more immersive experience. It's something a res chart can not divulge.
That said as an eyeglass user, comfort often trumps pure resolution, well in my case it always does as long as both are close and bright. That said, I sold my 15x Swaros (I still have some Swaros) but really only use my Mavins B.2 11x, they are just so comfortable to sit behind for hours.
The B.5 you were looking at, is that new-gen design delivering the viewing experience your seeing manufacturers like Swaro and Meotpa moving towards feeling wider edge to edge (it's an illusion in a way), easier to look through than the other two 15x discussed with about 3mm more eye relief, and claims to have better light transmission. Although I didn't have the B.5s I tested next to my Swaros at the time.
Around here Mavin is too new so you will not see the groups of guys using them like you will with the years and years of Swaro SLCs and Meostars already in the shooter stream.
My Mavin B.2 are on my chest rig on every hunt from archery to late season, pig or Elk and what I use at matches. Swaros are gathering dust. That said, if someone gave me NL-Pure 12x I'd be a happy camper as well.
