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Recent content by Vivian Darkbloom

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    Swarovski ATS 65 & ATS 80

    Thank you very much Delia.
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    Swarovski ATS 65 & ATS 80

    I have been asked by A Bird Forum member to send some photos of equipment that I want to sell and that he's interested in. I don't have his email - how do I go about sending him this information? Help Please. Thanks Robin
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    Top birders use which binoculars?

    Assuming that some of the world's best birders live in Sweden you can get a good impression of the binoculars they use in the excellent photo gallery by Hans Bister: http://www.pbase.com/bister/birders My favourite is: http://www.pbase.com/bister/image/63433188 First key finding: Don't care...
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    Top birders use which binoculars?

    I have a suspicion that the various Leica Trinovid BN models might feature high on the list of favourite bins for experienced birders. They are fine optically, the rugged build means that you can forget about needing to be overly concerned about small knocks and rain splashes and they handle...
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    Top birders use which binoculars?

    I'd like to know which binoculars the elite birders prefer. Don't be shy if you think you qualify as an 'elite birder' or if you prefer the term top experienced birder, which bins would you pick up as you prepare to set off somewhere special.
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    Let us Vote for the Best Birding Binoculars Ever Produced

    As already indicated I favour the Zeiss Classic Dialyt 7x42. Other bins that I have owned in over twenty five years of birding include:- Zeiss Classic 10x40 (two pairs), Classic Dialyt 7x42 (sold in the nineties much to my shame, but can't remember what coatings) and Zeiss Nightowls 7x45, too...
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    Let us Vote for the Best Birding Binoculars Ever Produced

    Zeiss Classic Dialyt 7x42 After all these years still a contender. For ease of handling, unsurpassed aesthetic quality and optical performance it is a complete joy
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    Warbler, Sussex UK

    Utc? Dear Ken M UTC's please elaborate thanks Vivian Darkbloom
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    Birders and photographers

    When I first visited Cley back in the fifties we had binoculars made from old toilet rolls, and used a lorgnette for long distance work. If we saw a coot we gave it a tick and a gold star. We ate black pudding and lugworm sarnies at the car-park cafe and drank tea out of old bait tins. We were...
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    Birders and photographers

    Blast, I've been rumbled. How many times at the height of my obsession and when after many hours of patient stalking one those infinitely rare members of the divine order Lepidoptera, have I been foiled at the last moment by the crass intervention of a camera clicking dolt stumbling into the mis...
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    Birders and photographers

    Seems I struck a nerve with the photographers. Is perhaps the angry response prompted by guilt? The realisation that as lapsed birders who have strayed from the narrow path, that the disruption that they inflict on other people is basically both anti-social and selfish.
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    Birders and photographers

    To acquire a degree of proficiency in birding takes experience and many years of patient diligence and application. There is no short cut. In the past the same could be said for skill in photography. The ability to produce a picture of quality in the field demanded field craft and artistic...
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    Birders and photographers

    Returned to Cley for two weeks annual holiday after a year's absence. Immediately noticed the change in the profile and behaviour of those in the Cley Reserve hides. There were far fewer birders with scopes and bins and far more photographers with large lenses covered with camouflage...
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    "I wish I hadn't sold my ..." ???

    I wish I hadn't sold my... Zeiss Bgat 7x42 TP - since replaced them - twice - 2nd hand - almost 150% of the original price. What a mug to let them go. It was like trading in Jane Fonda for Victoria Beckham. Also Zeiss Bgat 10x40 TP, my first love and original indulgence. I should never have...
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    Zen-Ray Binoculars Giveaways. Ultimate Prize: two pairs of PRIME HD binoculars

    First time, lucky time!
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