My bedroom has a southern exposure, so it has to get really damned cold for me to need to turn on the heat. I like it cool, I don't like it hot. Some do, like Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
I guess I've been curious yellow about 7x50s. Almost bid on Prostars, FMTs, and even a low ball priced Zeiss B/GA once, but I never pulled the trigger.
One FMT in VG condition but with a single black spec on one objective lens, which doesn't affect the view (they always say that
, for $250! I can't believe I passed that up, but I thought if I don't like it, I'll have to explain about the tiny black spot when I sell it, and that's the reason the seller had to finally go so low on this price, nobody likes explaining black specs, no matter how tiny.
I know the exit pupils of a 7x50 would be overkill, the skies would looked washed out, stars would spike and blob, the weight would be too much for my popeye-before-the-spinach arms, the IF EPs would be a pain in the rump to use, and the narrowish AFOV would elicit an attack of claustrophobia that would have me running (or limping) out into the open field for air.
But for some reason, perhaps because I've read too many Cloudy Night threads about 7x50s, I keep on thinking about them w/out my socks on.
So far, not even Frank's enticing review of the reasonably priced 7x50 Foresta has got me curious green.
I'm holding out for a high quality WF 7x35. Someday....someway....somehow!
Brock