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    New low light weatherproof binoculars

    Sadly me thinks an SLC 8x56 is beyond the range of my American Express card ☹️
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    New low light weatherproof binoculars

    Too right ! I was teaching in Pontypridd today. Someone had upset the weather Gods. Horrendous. Roads flooded and blocked. Some of the poor birds caught out in it…poor little buggers. Wales is the only place where the magpies have got scuba gear and flippers.
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    New low light weatherproof binoculars

    Thanks Patudo. Much appreciated. I’m usually an early bird myself, so I’m up and out sometimes when it’s still dark. As for budget - will have to see how much I can spend without setting off alarm bells the other half might notice.
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    New low light weatherproof binoculars

    I intend using them for wildlife and birds, especially dawn and dusk, when I might get some foxes not to mention all the tweety birds etc, plane spotting both night and day, astronomy and ufo spotting, and dare I say I did take my last pair of 7x50 to haunted locations - much like wildlife, you...
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    New low light weatherproof binoculars

    Currently my 10x50 CZJ are good during the summer and my Fujinon 16x70 are fab for long distance daytime and astronomy, but both aren’t brilliant for nighttime/lowlight, which is why I’m looking at good 7x50 or 8x56 Or possibly the Habicht 7x42. Currently my heart says Habicht but my head is...
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    New low light weatherproof binoculars

    Currently, anything up to £700 is fair game. The Fuji’s come in at £690. The Zwarovski Habichts are £1040 and the Zeiss Conquests £1299 - doable if I changed my diet to bread and water for two months and gave up the pub. Anything for than that will require me selling a kidney or something.
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    New low light weatherproof binoculars

    Thanks for all the great feedback - given me plenty to think about 😊
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    New low light weatherproof binoculars

    Yes, I did see the Hawke Marine 7x50s, decent price and as you say they have a lifetime no quibble warranty. Does your “..they are thoroughly decent…” come from personal experience ?
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    New low light weatherproof binoculars

    I’m in the market for a new pair of low light weather proof binoculars, either 7x50 or 8x56. I have a very nice pair of 1980s CZJ Dekarems 10x50 which I use in the summer in nice weather, but not being nitrogen purged etc, nice pair of winter binos required. So far I am looking at Fujinon 7x50...
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