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    Good, but inexpensive, lightweight binoculars?

    Susantm: Congratulations! Vortex Fury binoculars provide very good quality for your money. They are well built, rugid, dependable and provide solid optics. Vortex also is supposed to have excellent customer service (just don't send them emails as they never seem to respond). I have had...
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    Good, but inexpensive, lightweight binoculars?

    Susantm: Go to binoculars.com home page. At the bottom there is a box to submit your email address. You will receive emails (many) starting in about a week from Hayneedle (the parent company that owns 200 web merchants) mainly in regard to outdoor furniture, once every three or four months...
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    Good, but inexpensive, lightweight binoculars?

    Susantm: I completely agree with Kevin; REI is the wrong place to purchase binoculars, but it's OK to look at binoculars there. Best prices are generally found on-line. EagleOptics, OpticsPlanet, CameralandNY, ebay (be careful) and Binoculars.com (if you have a 14% discount coupon). All of...
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    Good, but inexpensive, lightweight binoculars?

    Susantm: Last time I was in REI, their binoculars looked similar to Alpen and Vortex models. All were made in China, which is appropriate to your price range. Very good binoculars for the price are made in China. Yes, often better quality binoculars are made in Japan, but they cost more and...
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    Good, but inexpensive, lightweight binoculars?

    Susantm: I also wear eyeglasses, I do not have thick lenses, but I do have a bit of astigmatism in one eye. I've found that 16.5 mm of eye relief (ER) is the minimum that I can get by with, too bad for me. I recently tried a Minox HG 8x33, spectacular resolution but I could not live with only...
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    Good, but inexpensive, lightweight binoculars?

    Susantm: Go. Look at binoculars similar to what you want. But go look. See for yourself the diferences between compacts (7x26), mid-compacts (8x28 to 10x33) and full size (8x40 to 10x44). Find out what magnification you are comfortable with, what eye relief you are comfortable with, what...
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    Good, but inexpensive, lightweight binoculars?

    Susantm: Your only a few of miles away from the old Sportsmen's Warehouse, that use to be on SE 82nd Avenue. South of SE Powell Blvd and north of the Walmart adjacent to SE 82nd Ave. Sportsmen's Warehouse went out of business in Portland, but that store was purchased by a Canadian Union and...
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