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When I hunt in low light situations, and fading light is the best time for a large buck, I hunt with my 7600 Carbine that has an 8X56 Zeiss on top of it. I have a couple of Zeiss scopes, A couple of Swarovski scopes, and a pot full of Leupold's. They are all god scopes, but if you want the best in low light-then believe me that Zeiss 8X56 is tough to beat. I have nothing but experience to prove this with, but again IMO the fixed power scopes seem to do a better job in low light. I can not prove that, but it has been my experience. Tom.
I'll call Amen! T* Coatings on Zeiss Diavaris are right up there on the top. I suspect we would have to get BigCountry to analyze the lot to tell us which one really is brighter, but a lot of it has to do with each shooters indiviual eye sight. Schmidt and Bender and T* Zeiss' get my nod for the top two....which is #1...depends on who you ask...but you can't lose either way!
Not sure if your pulling my leg or not. But I only can test in spectrums barely visable to dogs. All my equipment is set up for 800nm or above. I am not sure of how valid my tests are. I just play around with my hunting gear after work. I do have a Back reflection test set at 1200nm that is pretty cool. I get like -20db back reflection on a pine ridge 2X I got and get like -45dB on a ziess conquest. I am not sure what spectrums apply in twilight. These guys who work in this field have the equipement to change coatings nad test at the exact lamda at twilight and morning. I just play. I am not even remotely in thier applications. Mine is all freespace data transmission and such. I just take an interest in this stuff.