Chris Galvin
Well-known member
As you mentioned boats Joe.S
Birdforum member and birding guide Peter Ericsson who lives in Thailand and guides all over South East Asia has had an MM3 50 ED with HDF zoom since we first launched the product. It is fair to say that his scope gets into a lot of hot and humid jungles, used on dry salt pans, used in wet highland woods and has never once had a problem despite being used hard every day.
You and other subscribers to this forum may be interested to read the one and only 'scrape' he has had whilst using the scope. This text is copied from Peter's Facebook page
A one day shorebirding gave Wayne from South Africa a lot of target birds. Here are his 10 best:
Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Nordmann's Greenshank
Asiatic Dowitcher
Malaysian Plover
White-faced Plover
Long-toed Stint
Chinese Egret
Pallas's Gull
Black-headed Ibis
Painted Stork
Another amazing thing happened. I somehow dropped my Opticron scope in the sea while on a boat ride to the sandspit. The scope stayed floating on the surface for the 20 seconds it took to pick it up.
No damage, no water in the scope. Just had to dry the cover and it was back to normal.
The link to the page is below
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?....128751497385.129520.690732385&type=3&theater
Birdforum member and birding guide Peter Ericsson who lives in Thailand and guides all over South East Asia has had an MM3 50 ED with HDF zoom since we first launched the product. It is fair to say that his scope gets into a lot of hot and humid jungles, used on dry salt pans, used in wet highland woods and has never once had a problem despite being used hard every day.
You and other subscribers to this forum may be interested to read the one and only 'scrape' he has had whilst using the scope. This text is copied from Peter's Facebook page
A one day shorebirding gave Wayne from South Africa a lot of target birds. Here are his 10 best:
Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Nordmann's Greenshank
Asiatic Dowitcher
Malaysian Plover
White-faced Plover
Long-toed Stint
Chinese Egret
Pallas's Gull
Black-headed Ibis
Painted Stork
Another amazing thing happened. I somehow dropped my Opticron scope in the sea while on a boat ride to the sandspit. The scope stayed floating on the surface for the 20 seconds it took to pick it up.
No damage, no water in the scope. Just had to dry the cover and it was back to normal.
The link to the page is below
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?....128751497385.129520.690732385&type=3&theater