Spotters Comparison between Vortex Razor 85 and Swarovski ATX 95

Matteman

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Feb 27, 2021
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I met a bird watcher that let me test his Swarovski ATX 95 scope on the clubs shooting range after a competition, and compared it to a Vortex Razor 85.

Results
Swarovski ATX is slightly sharper, has less(none that i could see) chromatic aberation, and a bit better contrast. The biggest improvement i could tell was that the eye box was a lot bigger, it was easier on the eyes to look through it(possibly due to the Swarovski having a bigger front lens, and not beeing set to maximum magnification). As for finding holes in paper at 300m, it is still a challange and depends on the target paper color, background and lighting.

Price
The Razor is about 1800$ and the Swarovski about 4300$ Image quality clearly improves with price, but it follows the law of diminishing returns. Small increments in price around 500-1000$ improves the image quality much more.

The test was done afocally, both images were a bit sharper IRL. 10 images were taken on each scope, and the sharpest chosen for the test. Both scopes were set to 60x magnification
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