[Sancho]

Supposing Santa knows what´s on your Bino wish-list....care to share it with us just in case he exists? The bins have to be actually available, ´cos Santy can´t get you Swaro HD EL or Nikon EDG as his elves don´t do time-travel.

Here´s my list of three, in no particular order:

1. Swaro EL 8.5x42
2. Canon IS 18x50
3. Vixen 30x80 (or something that insane, for seawatching)

[Tero]

Mystery Binocular, ED, in 9x36.

[orbitaljump]

Fujinon 40x150
Nikon 20x120
Kowa 32x82 High Lander Prominar



Miyauchi Saturn II or III
Zeiss 80mm Turret Eyepiece Starmorbi

[Sancho]

Originally Posted by orbitaljump

Fujinon 40x150
Nikon 20x120
Kowa 32x82 High Lander Prominar



Miyauchi Saturn II or III
Zeiss 80mm Turret Eyepiece Starmorbi

Great! Another Crazy Oversize-Binoholic!

[dantheman]

After christmas has bin and gone, are there special kinds of therapy groups which suddenly become very popular with unrequited optic lovers whose christmas wishes were sadly unfulfilled??

Or is January that happy time when New Year 'Resolutions' suddenly increase and wishful stargazing (a popular cross-curricular activity I believe) becomes a reality . . .

Just curious . . . (ok, and being a bit naughty )

[Sancho]

Originally Posted by dantheman

After christmas has bin and gone, are there special kinds of therapy groups which suddenly become very popular with unrequited optic lovers whose christmas wishes were sadly unfulfilled??

Xmas Bino-wishes always remain unfulfilled. I´ll probably get another Digital Tyre-Pressure Gauge. (I´ve gotten two already...seriously...never had a use even for one). But if my Ominous Predictions of Economic Collapse come to pass, I´ll walk into a liquidation sale in an optics shop (there are only two in Dubln), and slap a big load of Euro (or paper-clips, cowrie-shells, whatever) on the counter and see if I get one of my dream-binos.

[orbitaljump]

Takahashi 22x60
Zeiss 15x60

[Kevin Purcell]

I'm hoping the Zeiss Victory 8x40 I ordered (discovered New Old Stock from Cameraland for $550) are Victory 2 and not Victory 1 ...

Come on Santa you can do it!

[Steve C]

Well since this is wish list, if Santa showed up with one or the other or both a Steiner Peregrine XP 10x44 and a Meopta 8x32, I might well be able to quit looking at various binoculars and just go to using those.

Since Santa has an extremely high probability of not coming up with either of those, I'd like a 10x Promaster Infinity Elite ELX ED 10x to compliment the 8x I have.

I wouldn't turn down a Leupold Gold Ring Switch Power 7-12x either. But these are the Unicorns of the optics world. Pictures and vague reports of possible sightings are all that exist. Sort of like the rumored Nikon EDG, but these have been avoiding actual sightings longer than the EDG. I think it will take a magical sort of fella like Santa to locate them.

[Kevin Purcell]

Another wish would be the new Orion ULX Chinese ED's are as good as the Hawke (that they resemble) so he can bring me a 10x ED cheap ...

[ThoLa]

Originally Posted by Sancho

Supposing Santa knows what´s on your Bino wish-list.... as his elves don´t do time-travel.

I just want an elve!

Tom

[mark22c]

i got my xmas bins early, a 70mm binocular that actually is a 70mm binocular and actually is fully broadband multi coated and... for once a tripod and head that actually is suitable for them... elves would be cool though?

swaro EL 8.4x42 is the only binocular that i have ever really really desired wanted needed had to have... i still want them and will one day own one... one day

[Alexis Powell]

Miyauchi 5x32. I can't justify buying them myself, but they'd be a lot of fun to play with, and they'd be an interesting addition to my collection.

http://www.bigbinoculars.com/m532w.htm

--AP

PS to Sancho: I've nearly made it to 2009 without any new bino purchases, so I'm close to keeping my pledge of no new binos for a year! Hmm... I hope that wasn't/isn't the drop in consumer spending that broke/breaks the economy's back!

[Tero]

On the reality channel: Santa will actually bring just a tripod base for me.

[orbitaljump]

Ill put the Miyauchi 7x50 and 5x35 on my list as well!

And a Zeiss 8x60 Porro II

[Tero]

I toyed with a Zeiss Conquest idea for a year or two. Other than rubber eye cups, it was good enough.

I gave up on compact dreams. It really is not worth pursuing, for me. If one comes buy, for a good price, I may still look.

[Sancho]

Originally Posted by Alexis Powell

PS to Sancho: I've nearly made it to 2009 without any new bino purchases, so I'm close to keeping my pledge of no new binos for a year! Hmm... I hope that wasn't/isn't the drop in consumer spending that broke/breaks the economy's back!

I broke my pledge. So I reckon that cancels out your failure to support the Western Economies....just as well I was there to pick up the can for your negligence!

[UTCbirder]

I have it on good advice that the corpulent, jiggly dude in the red velvet suit has stashed away in his napsack a pair of Fuji 12X32 Sabilieyes... YEHAW... Cookies and milk for everyone!

utc

[Alexis Powell]

Originally Posted by Sancho

I broke my pledge. So I reckon that cancels out your failure to support the Western Economies....just as well I was there to pick up the can for your negligence!

Ha! Thank goodness :)

--AP

[Sancho]

Change of Plan. Santa is bringing me a new Mountain Bike. You can have enough bins, but you can never have enough bicycles....

[stuart C smith]

Originally Posted by Sancho

Change of Plan. Santa is bringing me a new Mountain Bike. You can have enough bins, but you can never have enough bicycles....

is it one of those dutch mountain bikes with stabilizers ?

[Sancho]

Originally Posted by stuart C smith

is it one of those dutch mountain bikes with stabilizers ?

LOL! For going over speed-bumps on the streets of Amsterdam? No. It´s my first-ever MTB with front-suspension. Which I always despised. I´ll take out my binocular-collection on Christmas Day just to remind myself that I need more bins like I need some extra fingers. (Or bikes...)

Meanwhile I hope you all get the bins that you deserve. If you´ve been Good.....

(So what´s the bins equivalent of a Sack of Coal?)

[Steve C]

Originally Posted by Sancho

(So what´s the bins equivalent of a Sack of Coal?)

I think that would be delayed product release dates. OK fess up here. Who's not been so good?

[Tero]

(So what´s the bins equivalent of a Sack of Coal?)

Kevin has a pair
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=129242

[Kevin Purcell]

Originally Posted by Tero

Kevin has a pair
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=129242

I think that would be the proverbial "missing pony": "There's got to be a pony around here somewhere",

Perhaps an IOU for the Orion ULX ED bins for their new May 2009 ship date might be a birders' equivalent to a sack of coal.

"What do you mean after the spring migration?"