Replace Binos with Your Phone's Optical Zoom?

[dreamingWest]

Here's an offseason topic:

Have any of you ultralight hunters considered ditching your main bino because optical zoom is so high on late model phones?

My daughter has just started running track this year and I noticed several mom's around me using their phone's zoom capability to identify kids all the way across the stadium. It worked surprisingly well. I see the latest iPhone Pro model boasts 8X Optical Zoom.

I'm an alpha optics guy. I love great glass. But I'm curious, any of you guys brave enough to go straight iPhone Pro with a CRF?

 

[Samson7x]

Negative, glass is too important in the hunt IMO.

 

[dreamingWest]

After I hit post, I realized how dumb it would be for any hunt more that just a woodland style still hunt. In which case you could argue you don't need glass at all.

I live in my binos even in a treestand. But I think most of the whitetail hunters in my camp could definitely ditch their binos for these 8x zoom phones.