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Looking for Binoculars for Newbie Birder Wife (1 Viewer)
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The close focus of the Yosemite is a drawback, but it's one well worth putting up with for the benefits you get. The BX-1 version will improve the close focus, but at the cost of eye-relief. The Yosemite 6x30 would be my choice given your criteria.
I should admit here that, though I always carry the Yosemite when out birding, I use an Olympus 8x25 PC I for watching my feeders. (It's called the Olympus Tracker in the US; Amazon have it for $52, which is very good value. The same bin from Amazon UK would cost me $75). I find I like the apparently huge image of the Olympus and, for feeder-watching, don't mind the smaller FOV.
However, though the Yosemite seems light and small and neat to me, my wife thinks it too heavy. And when we took a friend of hers out birding, she liked the Olympus, which we leant her, but when I offered her the Yosemite to try, she said she could never use anything so big and heavy!
Some women, like my wife, insist on tiny, ultra-lightweight bins (87g in her case!) while others are happy to lug about 900g monsters. So even though your wife won't be carrying, or wearing, the bins, she might find a big difference between holding up the 482g (17 oz) of the Yosemite and the 280g (<10 oz) of a 8x25 reverse porro, such as the Olympus.
Michael
I should admit here that, though I always carry the Yosemite when out birding, I use an Olympus 8x25 PC I for watching my feeders. (It's called the Olympus Tracker in the US; Amazon have it for $52, which is very good value. The same bin from Amazon UK would cost me $75). I find I like the apparently huge image of the Olympus and, for feeder-watching, don't mind the smaller FOV.
However, though the Yosemite seems light and small and neat to me, my wife thinks it too heavy. And when we took a friend of hers out birding, she liked the Olympus, which we leant her, but when I offered her the Yosemite to try, she said she could never use anything so big and heavy!
Some women, like my wife, insist on tiny, ultra-lightweight bins (87g in her case!) while others are happy to lug about 900g monsters. So even though your wife won't be carrying, or wearing, the bins, she might find a big difference between holding up the 482g (17 oz) of the Yosemite and the 280g (<10 oz) of a 8x25 reverse porro, such as the Olympus.
Michael
brocknroller
porromaniac
You are a cartoonist, aren't you? Dadburnit, you may be one of the few people in all tarnation, or at least in the Netherlands, to get that old Warner Bros. cartoon reference!
For the uninitiated, here he is:
http://richardpurnell.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/yosemite-sam.jpg
KorHaan
Well-known member
Hahahahahaha!
See how far apart these barrels are?!?
Awesome 3D-effect in the Yosemite Sams!
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Best regards,
Ronald
