HI CG
I bet you drink 7Up too :-O
Nice of you to drop by.
Lee
Lee,
Only with Seagram's ... 7 :t:
CG
HI CG
I bet you drink 7Up too :-O
Nice of you to drop by.
Lee
Your remark about the store that "educated" you made me think on a "thinktank session" with Mike (ex-Zeiss USA) who told me his reps were instructed by him to educate the shopkeepers so that the customers good be brought up to speed about the consequences of their choices. Both of us were convinced that only education and customers practical field experience could lead to certain choices.
First good binoculars I bought were Leitz 10x25s in 1982.
Had mostly Leica since inc 10x42 BAs, 2 pair 7x42 Ultravids, 8x42 Ultravids, and my current best bins- 8x32 BNs.
Sprinkle amongst those Nikon 8x30 EIIs, Nikon ProStaff 8x25s, Vanguard Endeavor EDII 10x42s and 8x32 EDIIs, several IF Fujinon porros 6x30: 7x50: 16x70, Zeiss 10x25 Victorys,
and some cheaper (Browning and Bushnell) car bins.
I'm mostly a Leica guy.
...The Leica 8x20 are much better instruments for people who don’t wear glasses...
Kevin was that IF Fujinon 6x30 something like this?
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/133024/ppuser/28262
I use a Swarovski SLC 8x30 WB HABICHT, Nikon 8x32SE and a Kenko 8x32
For half the SV price you'll have a 12x50HD Meopta. One I reckon for 99% A.
Jan
What's the eye relief on that one? As a glasses wearer it's only a worthwhile upgrade for me if it has better eye relief than the Monarch 5. Meopta seem to list 15mm on their website but from what I've learned so far is that not all is equal between brands with how they measure eye relief.
It wasn't until about 1990 that i got my own bins. I'd inherited an unnamed porro from my gran, and had my cousin's ex-Merchant Navy marine set as a kid (latter almost prevented me cycling!)
I spent £150 on Viking porro 8x42 HRs in 1990-ish and endured the wrath of my partner, as we had little money, our first child and this was definitely AN INDULGENCE!
I nearly trashed those bins for 17 years (they're now with a bird observatory in Gambia), and it was only when making a concerted effort to become better at birding that i stepped into the modern world, via Vanguard Endeavour 8.5x45 - couldn't believe what was now possible! So that's why my i.d. skills were poor - i couldn't see them!
A couple of years after, i came by a set of FL 8x32 on Ebay, upgraded to the Endeavour EDII 8x42, and that'll do nicely, thanks....The FL and I are a match made in heaven, and unless the anticipated SF 8x32 is completely irresistible, reckon i'm where i need to be optics-wise.
For half the SV price you'll have a 12x50HD Meopta. One I reckon for 99% A.
Jan, sorry if this should be obvious, but what does "99% A" mean there? Thanks. (I am thinking of getting this model.)
Tsjech is a (compared to the rest of the EU) low labor cost country, which is why they can produce relatively cheap.
Their gear is top notch, they offer 30 years garantuee and have a repair department.
As the former industrial heartland of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, prewar Czech industry was a match for Germany, and of course Bohemia has a long and distinguished tradition of crystal and glass making.
The previous-generation Leica spotting scopes were actually manufactured by Meopta.