Re: Re: Details and background

From: <leop_at_lyradev.com>
Date: 29 Apr 2014 12:21:13 -0700

The Nikon Forestry Pro has several different measuring mode. The three-point mode does as you described. There is also a similar two point mode using the linear distance and angle to two points to calculate the vertical separation of the points. Then there is the simple height above (or below) the horizontal mode by taking just one measurement of the linear distance and the angle to the target. This single point mode is the one I described and is the one most useful to indoor fliers. Of course, one's eye is above the floor so I take a floor measurement to get my eye height and add this (mentally) to the measured height.

 I was incorrect previously when I said that the maximum range of the Forestry Pro was 300m. It is 550m just like the CoolShot AS. When I purchased my CoolShot AS earlier this year, I paid $280 US and at that time the Forestry Pro cost nearly $600. Now, with the costs at $350 and $400 respectively, one might consider buying the more expensive Forestry Pro if one wants to be able to use feet (limited to 999 feet) and the other measuring modes.
 

 As Mike Kirda posted, other brands of laser rangefinders with internal inclinometers are becoming widely available. The are now more choices available (with even more in the future) and prices will surely come down.
 

 LeoP
 

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