Leica Geovid R - EHR frustration

[gbflyer]

Leica does an excellent job of packaging their products for shipment back from repair. The packaging should be retained, as it will be used several times throughout the life of the optic.

 

[HighUintas]

I noticed this after I bought a geovid R. I was really thrown off at first when I changed it in the field and didn't have the manual because, logically, the LOS should come second if you're in EHR mode. I thought it was broken or I was doing something wrong.

Got home, looked it up.... Bummer.

I don't know why that was never mentioned in any of the previous threads on these being the absolute best bino LRF without ballistics calc. It could be a deal breaker for many. It's highly annoying, but luckily for me I'm not good enough to be taking any shots where the combination of speed, distance, and angle matter all at the same time. In all scenarios I can think of, I should be able to wait the time needed to turn them on and get the EHR before shooting. I'll just have to remind myself.... With one of those "hey dummy" stickers

 

[Stinky Coyote]

Optically it was awesome and in regular los mode no complaints. Ranged antelope on sunny day to 1000 along side Sig. They Sig kills it in weather, speed, speed to any solution, and prolly do antelope a heckuva lot further but just adequate for average hunting optically. Heck the fov on the 2700 hdr which was 10x42 was as big as the Sig 8x32. Buts it’s alpha level optically vs the budget view in the Sig, which I could care less about. I made my choice and chose the ranging speed and power over the image quality.

 

[Stinky Coyote]

Read that again. The HD-R doesn't do holdover or click adjustments, but it does do EHR, which accounts for those variables I highlighted.

I read it again. First line at the top says it all. Does not apply to HD-R. No atmospherics in that unit. So it was absolutely reading the angle wrong and or has the wrong triangle math in the chip. Either way...thing was a big fat liar on ehr mode. It cannot factor atmospherics to unknown drag profile. No ehr amr angle compensation mode should, straight triangle math, true horizontal .

 

[Jordan Smith]

I read it again. First line at the top says it all. Does not apply to HD-R. No atmospherics in that unit. So it was absolutely reading the angle wrong and or has the wrong triangle math in the chip. Either way...thing was a big fat liar on ehr mode. It cannot factor atmospherics to unknown drag profile. No ehr amr angle compensation mode should, straight triangle math, true horizontal .

I had the HD-R 2700. It measured temperature and pressure. It also (along with every other Leica I've been around), does not just simply solve for the cosine of the angle to give simple EHR, but rather includes some other variables in the solution. Which is irritating.

This isn't an issue of your one unit being faulty, nor is it that Leica doesn't know how to calculate a simple cosine. They're overthinking what people actually want, and looking beyond the mark.

 

[Stinky Coyote]

I had the HD-R 2700. It measured temperature and pressure. It also (along with every other Leica I've been around), does not just simply solve for the cosine of the angle to give simple EHR, but rather includes some other variables in the solution. Which is irritating.

This isn't an issue of your one unit being faulty, nor is it that Leica doesn't know how to calculate a simple cosine. They're overthinking what people actually want, and looking beyond the mark.

Ah right, I do recall the temp and pressure now. Don’t recall if it had any preloaded curves you could select but i recall choosing it for angle compensation and and only that mode used, then find out later it doesn’t do that and who knows what it’s doing or guessing for you? And good to know, never see much talk on this with Leica and seems more than irritating, bordering on useless feature to most. I have an old crf1600 and it definitely doesn’t have any clown features. The only other Leica I been around.