Supposing Santa brings you Bins.....

[Sancho]

Supposing Santa knows what´s on your Bino wish-list....care to share it with us just in case he exists? The bins have to be actually available, ´cos Santy can´t get you Swaro HD EL or Nikon EDG as his elves don´t do time-travel.

Here´s my list of three, in no particular order:

1. Swaro EL 8.5x42
2. Canon IS 18x50
3. Vixen 30x80 (or something that insane, for seawatching)

[Tero]

Mystery Binocular, ED, in 9x36.

[orbitaljump]

Fujinon 40x150
Nikon 20x120
Kowa 32x82 High Lander Prominar

;)

Miyauchi Saturn II or III
Zeiss 80mm Turret Eyepiece Starmorbi

;)

[Sancho]

Fujinon 40x150
Nikon 20x120
Kowa 32x82 High Lander Prominar

;)

Miyauchi Saturn II or III
Zeiss 80mm Turret Eyepiece Starmorbi

;)
Great! Another Crazy Oversize-Binoholic!;);)

[dantheman]

After christmas has bin and gone, are there special kinds of therapy groups which suddenly become very popular with unrequited optic lovers whose christmas wishes were sadly unfulfilled??

Or is January that happy time when New Year 'Resolutions' suddenly increase and wishful stargazing (a popular cross-curricular activity I believe) becomes a reality . . .

Just curious . . . (ok, and being a bit naughty ;) )

[Sancho]

After christmas has bin and gone, are there special kinds of therapy groups which suddenly become very popular with unrequited optic lovers whose christmas wishes were sadly unfulfilled??



Xmas Bino-wishes always remain unfulfilled. I´ll probably get another Digital Tyre-Pressure Gauge. (I´ve gotten two already...seriously...never had a use even for one). But if my Ominous Predictions of Economic Collapse come to pass, I´ll walk into a liquidation sale in an optics shop (there are only two in Dubln), and slap a big load of Euro (or paper-clips, cowrie-shells, whatever) on the counter and see if I get one of my dream-binos.

[orbitaljump]

Takahashi 22x60
Zeiss 15x60

[Kevin Purcell]

I'm hoping the Zeiss Victory 8x40 I ordered (discovered New Old Stock from Cameraland for $550) are Victory 2 and not Victory 1 ...

Come on Santa you can do it!

[Steve C]

Well since this is wish list, if Santa showed up with one or the other or both a Steiner Peregrine XP 10x44 and a Meopta 8x32, I might well be able to quit looking at various binoculars and just go to using those.

Since Santa has an extremely high probability of not coming up with either of those, I'd like a 10x Promaster Infinity Elite ELX ED 10x to compliment the 8x I have.

I wouldn't turn down a Leupold Gold Ring Switch Power 7-12x either. But these are the Unicorns of the optics world. Pictures and vague reports of possible sightings are all that exist. Sort of like the rumored Nikon EDG, but these have been avoiding actual sightings longer than the EDG. I think it will take a magical sort of fella like Santa to locate them.

[Kevin Purcell]

Another wish would be the new Orion ULX Chinese ED's are as good as the Hawke (that they resemble) so he can bring me a 10x ED cheap ...

[ThoLa]

Supposing Santa knows what´s on your Bino wish-list.... as his elves don´t do time-travel.


I just want an elve! :gh:

Tom

[mark22c]

i got my xmas bins early, a 70mm binocular that actually is a 70mm binocular and actually is fully broadband multi coated and... for once a tripod and head that actually is suitable for them... elves would be cool though?

swaro EL 8.4x42 is the only binocular that i have ever really really desired wanted needed had to have... i still want them and will one day own one... one day

[Alexis Powell]

Miyauchi 5x32. I can't justify buying them myself, but they'd be a lot of fun to play with, and they'd be an interesting addition to my collection.

http://www.bigbinoculars.com/m532w.htm

--AP

PS to Sancho: I've nearly made it to 2009 without any new bino purchases, so I'm close to keeping my pledge of no new binos for a year! Hmm... I hope that wasn't/isn't the drop in consumer spending that broke/breaks the economy's back!

[Tero]

On the reality channel: Santa will actually bring just a tripod base for me.

[orbitaljump]

Ill put the Miyauchi 7x50 and 5x35 on my list as well!

And a Zeiss 8x60 Porro II

[Tero]

I toyed with a Zeiss Conquest idea for a year or two. Other than rubber eye cups, it was good enough.

I gave up on compact dreams. It really is not worth pursuing, for me. If one comes buy, for a good price, I may still look.

[Sancho]

PS to Sancho: I've nearly made it to 2009 without any new bino purchases, so I'm close to keeping my pledge of no new binos for a year! Hmm... I hope that wasn't/isn't the drop in consumer spending that broke/breaks the economy's back!
I broke my pledge. So I reckon that cancels out your failure to support the Western Economies....just as well I was there to pick up the can for your negligence!;)

[UTCbirder]

I have it on good advice that the corpulent, jiggly dude in the red velvet suit has stashed away in his napsack a pair of Fuji 12X32 Sabilieyes... YEHAW... Cookies and milk for everyone!

utc

[Alexis Powell]

I broke my pledge. So I reckon that cancels out your failure to support the Western Economies....just as well I was there to pick up the can for your negligence!;)

Ha! Thank goodness :)

--AP

[Sancho]

Change of Plan. Santa is bringing me a new Mountain Bike. You can have enough bins, but you can never have enough bicycles....;)

[stuart C smith]

Change of Plan. Santa is bringing me a new Mountain Bike. You can have enough bins, but you can never have enough bicycles....;)

is it one of those dutch mountain bikes with stabilizers ? ;)

[Sancho]

is it one of those dutch mountain bikes with stabilizers ? ;)
LOL! For going over speed-bumps on the streets of Amsterdam? No. It´s my first-ever MTB with front-suspension. Which I always despised. I´ll take out my binocular-collection on Christmas Day just to remind myself that I need more bins like I need some extra fingers. (Or bikes...)

Meanwhile I hope you all get the bins that you deserve. If you´ve been Good.....

(So what´s the bins equivalent of a Sack of Coal?)

[Steve C]

(So what´s the bins equivalent of a Sack of Coal?)

I think that would be delayed product release dates. OK fess up here. Who's not been so good?

[Tero]

(So what´s the bins equivalent of a Sack of Coal?)
Kevin has a pair
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=129242

[Kevin Purcell]

Kevin has a pair
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=129242

I think that would be the proverbial "missing pony": "There's got to be a pony around here somewhere",

Perhaps an IOU for the Orion ULX ED bins for their new May 2009 ship date might be a birders' equivalent to a sack of coal.

"What do you mean after the spring migration?"

[stuart C smith]

LOL! For going over speed-bumps on the streets of Amsterdam? No. It´s my first-ever MTB with front-suspension. Which I always despised. I´ll take out my binocular-collection on Christmas Day just to remind myself that I need more bins like I need some extra fingers. (Or bikes...)

Meanwhile I hope you all get the bins that you deserve. If you´ve been Good.....

(So what´s the bins equivalent of a Sack of Coal?)

good !! GOOD !!!! i have been so good, ive got medals to prove it. 8-P as to the sack of coal, see my flaks. ;) xmas ? i will probably get a electric toothbrush - for my electric teeth.

[Sancho]

good !! GOOD !!!! i have been so good, ive got medals to prove it. 8-P as to the sack of coal, see my flaks. ;) xmas ? i will probably get a electric toothbrush - for my electric teeth.
So what´s the story with the Flaks? Are they usable as observation binos? Amazing to think that when they were young, they may have seen B52´s and and Lancasters droning overhead.....are there many like them left in usable or repairable condition? Come to think of it, you can use them on Xmas Eve to watch out for Santa coming......

[ThoLa]

So what´s the story with the Flaks? Are they usable as observation binos? Amazing to think that when they were young, they may have seen B52´s and and Lancasters droning overhead.........

Where are the B52s?
Where?

[Sancho]

Where are the B52s?
Where?

Hey! That´s the Leprechaun who stole my compacts!

[stuart C smith]

So what´s the story with the Flaks? Are they usable as observation binos? Amazing to think that when they were young, they may have seen B52´s and and Lancasters droning overhead.....are there many like them left in usable or repairable condition? Come to think of it, you can use them on Xmas Eve to watch out for Santa coming......

hi sancho, yes they are very useable, very bright with a 70 degree fov. they might have clocked my dad, he flew short stirlings over germany 60 years ago and lived to tell the tale . some 300.00 to 350.000 were produced from about 1939 till 1945 they often turn up on ebay in all sorts of condition but the bits that go with them [ mounts, sights, containers, browrests, electrics etc, etc ] are hard to find, santa got clamped down the road last year so he is doing a fly past this year. ;)

[stuart C smith]

Where are the B52s?
Where?

not up that drainpipe, thats for sure.!!! ;)

[ThoLa]

Supposing Santa knows what´s on your Bino wish-list....


Last night I had a nightmare:
What if Santa has been hit hard by The Crisis, had to have Rudolph put down by the Vet, and is now on the run with all those gifts, .... and delivers Nothing this year?! :eek!:

The Unfortuneteller (aka: the Ghost of X-mess still to come)

[Sancho]

Last night I had a nightmare:
What if Santa has been hit hard by The Crisis
Well, you could ask the Irish Government to re-capitalise him. They´ve just decided to give a Christmas Present to the Banks here....my pension. And they´re bailing out the Pig-Farmers who´ve been feeding dioxins to their pigs. So Santa and I have been in the wrong trades.....Banking and Pig-Farming is where it´s at. You screw up, the Government rewards you!

[Tero]

Well, Santa is bringing nothing but the tripid base, it is in our closet now. Costs as much as an iPod. iPOd for someone else.

[JohnJos]

If Santa could find a pair of Nikon E2s here in the US that would be a nice present to unwrap on Christmas morning.

[stuart C smith]

If Santa could find a pair of Nikon E2s here in the US that would be a nice present to unwrap on Christmas morning.

john E2s still here in the u.k. poss shipping to america. ?

[postcardcv]

tough one, I guess my top three that I'd like would be:

Nikon 8x32 SEs
Kowa Highlanders (the prominar ones) - would they fit down the chimney?
Leica 7x42 Ultravid HDs

[JohnJos]

Thanks Stuart. That is a possibility to consider.

[socksitis]

So did santa deliver anything??

[Sancho]

So did santa deliver anything??
Not to me, he didn´t. Even my mountain bike didn´t arrive as the model had been discontinued. Don´t care, just ordered a better one in a sale!!!;)