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Thanks. I have loaded it and used it. Very happy with my purchase. I received my adobe software from Store_usa in a timely manner. It is in wonderful condition.
Don't bite. Its like wet spaghetti. POS. The stop detents won't hold the cover in place at the 45-degree angle.
Sure, Brunton will replace the compass, but who wants to go to the trouble of that when you can have a Silva Ranger that lasts forever. All of this is surprising since the Brunton Pocket Transit is a time-honored classic of archaeological fieldwork.
Too bad this overpriced compass is a waste of time. I must say that, when you only need to get a quick bearing, the circle-over-circle gimmick is really cool.
I'm on my 3rd Eclipse. These would be life threatening problems if one were trying to navigate the backcountry with a topo map without GPS (and batteries die sometimes).
Buy a Silva. No matter how you handle them, they develop big bubbles in the face.
As an archaeologist who uses compasses to map archaeological sites in the field, the Brunton is useless because the orientation lines are only on the margin of the compass face and, to top it off, are horribly distorted where they cross under the magnifying lens built into the baseplate.
Great compass. This compass tells all the information you need so you won't get lost.You want to know the lay of the land. This compass is all you need.Excellent instructions and just large enough so you don,t have to squint to see what you are looking at.
And there pitch is that it is more accurate then the line compasses. The circle in circle idea. After playing with the compass for an hour I decided I really liked it. On the surface it sounds great.
I don't go anywhere without one. Now if you change your view higher or lower you will see the circles start to appear misaligned. There are two huge reasons why I cannot.1st. But the 8099 has all the features you could want in a compass and then some. So of course your reaction is to turn the compass to align them. However, if you view the compass by the mirror or from a large angle (yes I know the center line down the mirror is so you are not looking at it from a left and right angle but bare with me), the accuracy comes into question.To see this in action, place the compass on the edge of something solid and view the compass through the mirror set at the 45 degree position.
I don't even plan to send it back for repair.I really really want to love these compasses. I wasn't sure I liked the Brunton's circle in circle idea so I was hesitant to buy one. And when you see it in action, as a quick once over, it comes across as great an innovation as Brunton pitches it. And that viewing problem becomes more pronounced the closer to left and right the N and the blue circle are pointing. But these two huge issues are keeping it down. I love compasses.
This is a bit hard to explain in words but if you go to your local outdoors supplier and check it out, hopefully you can see what I am trying to get at. With the lines, even if you view the compass from an extreme angle, or the mirror isn't in the exact same position, you know when the compass is aligned right. I love the design of the compass although the rubber base gets in the way of opening up the entire top. But if you were to look straight down at the compass you would see they are in fact not aligned now. Both formed bubbles in them without going to any extreme temperature or elevation. In my car, in my backpack, on a plane, If I'm going out.a compasses is going with me.I bought a Brunton 8099 a while back. As I stated above I bought two of these. How.
So the question becomes how do you really know when the compass is reading true.So, the circle in circle sounds great, but it is flawed. Just viewing the compass straight down and moving your head around a bit will show the same thing.When you are out in the field and holding it by hand, you cannot guarantee that you are going to hold the compass at the exact same eye level every single time when viewing through the mirror. Even if the needle doesn't `appear' to be centered with the guide lines, when viewing from an extreme angle, if the needle and the guide lines are parallel with other, then you know your compass is reading true.2nd. There is so much to them. One of them has once again formed a bubble. Why. I sent both back and paid the $5 per compass fee for repair. I finally decided to give it a shot and purchased one.
I would prefer Brunton go back to the standard parallel lines. If you look straight down on the compass and align the circles all is fine and dandy. I liked it so much that I decided to buy a 2nd one a month later to have one in my camping stuff and one for local use.After having these compasses for a while now, I am very sad to say that I will not recommend it to anyone. However, if really put to the test it doesn't hold up.
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