Canip, serious question: do you always wear two binos? I know, the Papilio is not too heavy.
I am privileged to live on a hill immediately adjacent to a forest, with a view into the forest on one side and onto other hills on the other, and with a half acre backyard in which zero pestizides are used, there is plenty to observe at all distances, so I frequently have a dozen or more binos, magnifying glasses and and even a microscope on my garden table. But I am fully aware that this may be slightly weird behaviour and I do behave more normally when away from home out in the fields or in the mountains ...
JG if it wasn't important in the market Swaro wouldn't have bothered making sure that its best close focus is only available on its top, most expensive , model.
Lee
We'l have to agree to disagree then Lee, and that's fine. I could take a poll of the 160+ visitors I had in camps over the years and not one of them would be able to tell me what the close focus distance was on their binoculars. None.
JG
Do you mean that none of your 160+ visitors was interested in anything that they would use close-focus for?
Lee
.... and as to close focus:
She (pic) has been a regular visitor at my backyard, but she would not let me get closer than perhaps 4m before flying away, so the close focus distance of any of my binos was unimportant (the zoom of the Nikon camera did the job) ...
If I want to observe butterflies and other insect I ususally carry a Zeiss 6x18 monocular, very fast and easy focus, and that works very well next to an 8x32 or 8x42. Moreover it has a very close focus range.
Gijs van Ginkel
If someone did a survey, there is a very small need for very close focus so you can look at your shoelaces.
I find it useful within my work as an Ecologist when doing surveys. Going down the route of carrying more than one pair of binoculars is not a practical option. I appreciate that that not everyone uses their binoculars in the same way. IMHO the naturalist out there are likely to enjoy and use the close focusing capability.
Neil