Hello,
i am new to the forum, and hope that this message is in keeping with proper etiquette.
I have a pair of Bausch and Lomb Elite 10x from the early 1990s. They need some work - at the least, an eye cup is torn, the lenses are filthy. However,i also worry that they are out of alignment. (They were once, after i took a header on some rocks, and i took them to Redlich when still in Virginia). If they are just dirty, great, that's easy to fix for a pair i really like. But if they need more, i wonder about the benefits of repair vs. buying new. I haven't shopped for optics since buying these, so i don't know what's happend with the market. Did binoculars of this level get cheaper, so i can get something better for a reasonable price, as has happened with TVs, for instance? Or has the price just gone up, and i'm better off getting these fixed if necessary and reasonable? THanks for any advice.
i am new to the forum, and hope that this message is in keeping with proper etiquette.
I have a pair of Bausch and Lomb Elite 10x from the early 1990s. They need some work - at the least, an eye cup is torn, the lenses are filthy. However,i also worry that they are out of alignment. (They were once, after i took a header on some rocks, and i took them to Redlich when still in Virginia). If they are just dirty, great, that's easy to fix for a pair i really like. But if they need more, i wonder about the benefits of repair vs. buying new. I haven't shopped for optics since buying these, so i don't know what's happend with the market. Did binoculars of this level get cheaper, so i can get something better for a reasonable price, as has happened with TVs, for instance? Or has the price just gone up, and i'm better off getting these fixed if necessary and reasonable? THanks for any advice.