Be sure to watch our Trend and Plunge video too! These measurements are fast and simultaneous with the Axis and are one of it's most innovative features!
The Stratum can simultaneously measure dip angle and dip direction, not strike and dip as the Brunton Axis can. Plus the Axis has a second hinge axis that allows for simultaneous trend and plunge measurements.
I've been waiting years for this to become affordable, but I guess it never will. I bought a knockoff version made in China for $150 about four years ago and it hasn't let me down. I'd prefer to spend locally but I can't afford anything made in my own country.
The slight design changes do seem to be a genuine innovation. Lauren here thought it up, and her husband prototyped it, motivated to help the community. I'm sure (I'd hope) they got a great deal from Brunton to use the design (I don't know). It might seem so given the staggering price! However, I cannot help thinking how they might have made themselves better off in the long run by licensing their design openly, esp. to other instrument makers that have so far been unable to innovate on their own enough to produce a product that would break the Brunton hammer-lock on the professional transit market. Surely, these instruments needn't be many hundreds of dollars to perform to the level they do and with the quality they have. Brunton has completely sold out in every other area of their product catalog to cheap, nearly useless consumer gear. Their transits are about the only genuinely valuable product they still have, and they are subsidizing all the rest of the brand's ridiculous choices. It seems to me that a competent manufacturer ought to be able to field a substantially equivalent product at ~$150 - $250 price range, or better. So Lauren and Co. may have really missed an opportunity to do great things, and bring the utility of a pocket transit to a much wider market, and maybe do even better for themselves financially.
I think it's a great innovation and would love to give it a shot, but, like others the price tag is a bit steep. Regardless, good thinking and good work.
That's beautiful.
Be sure to watch our Trend and Plunge video too! These measurements are fast and simultaneous with the Axis and are one of it's most innovative features!
The price is coming down to the point where I'm [beginning] to consider a future purchase.
Price aside - I love the concept.
Stratum compasses that simultaneously measure strike and dip have been around for quite some time.
The Stratum can simultaneously measure dip angle and dip direction, not strike and dip as the Brunton Axis can. Plus the Axis has a second hinge axis that allows for simultaneous trend and plunge measurements.
I've been waiting years for this to become affordable, but I guess it never will. I bought a knockoff version made in China for $150 about four years ago and it hasn't let me down. I'd prefer to spend locally but I can't afford anything made in my own country.
The slight design changes do seem to be a genuine innovation. Lauren here thought it up, and her husband prototyped it, motivated to help the community. I'm sure (I'd hope) they got a great deal from Brunton to use the design (I don't know). It might seem so given the staggering price!
However, I cannot help thinking how they might have made themselves better off in the long run by licensing their design openly, esp. to other instrument makers that have so far been unable to innovate on their own enough to produce a product that would break the Brunton hammer-lock on the professional transit market. Surely, these instruments needn't be many hundreds of dollars to perform to the level they do and with the quality they have.
Brunton has completely sold out in every other area of their product catalog to cheap, nearly useless consumer gear. Their transits are about the only genuinely valuable product they still have, and they are subsidizing all the rest of the brand's ridiculous choices. It seems to me that a competent manufacturer ought to be able to field a substantially equivalent product at ~$150 - $250 price range, or better. So Lauren and Co. may have really missed an opportunity to do great things, and bring the utility of a pocket transit to a much wider market, and maybe do even better for themselves financially.
I think it's a great innovation and would love to give it a shot, but, like others the price tag is a bit steep. Regardless, good thinking and good work.
I would probably purchase this if it was $300-$400. $779.99 is way too much for a geo compass.
Sounds Great! Too bad we just bought the regular GEO model last month for our son the Geology major. Maybe if HIS children ever become geologists...
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At $779.99 I think I'll stick to FieldMove Clino at $4.99.
So Brunton has just invented a Freiberg compass?
Freiberger compasses don't work this way at all
$750 - for this shit? Are you kiddin?
Make your own then, whiner.