Ok was out today trying a new 8x25 I got and it's nothing special but it was good to be able to wear around the neck while cycling along.
So I'm sitting on a bench later trying them out and this guy going past asks if I've seen any interesting birds and I told him I was just trying out this new compact (Viking Vistron 8x25, not very sharp and chewing gum for focus grease otherwise pretty nice colours etc and I actually like it although it is limiting for birding but would make a great hike or travel/event bin). So he looks kind of excited and flashes his compact bin case and proclaims "like this you mean, I have one also". So I say great let me try hoping he has something good.
Well I couldn't see a damn thing trough them just a cloudy smudge with some sort of perhaps clearing in the centre and only in one side and after laughing I asked him if he could and he said sure. So I said try these and handed him the Viking which at least I could see quite well through so I expected him to notice quite a difference but no. He replies they seem about the same. At this point I thought ok this guy is an asylem escapee but we decided to have an impromptu test at a distant railway sign. I could just make out the number on it and he couldn't but he hunkered down and braced himself in a sort of ninja position against a fence in an effort to be able to steady himself so was clearly taking it pretty seriously.
It really made me laugh but at the same time it was so strange and I don't want to seem snobbish but truly the binocular he was using was so bad as to be pointless and yet I believe that he is happy with it and I suppose why not if he can't see any difference with a much better binocular which the Vistron is and it isn't spectacular in any way.
I still can't understand it but it's an absolutely true happening today. Can anyone else get this? He seemed a nice chap just out with his nice labrador dog for a walk. I don't think he was a lunatic but that certainly amazed me and I've met a lot of folks while out but never had that happen. I mean about £5 would buy a much better pair than he had and yet he really was happy with them. I only paid under £30 for the Vistron on auction. There is absolutely no way I would even consider letting the pair he had past the outdoor bin and into my house. I mean basically they were a binocular but I really have never ever seen anything so completely useless!
I really just don't get it. He's obviously not a serious user but even then I still don't get how he could actually see anything through them but apparently he could although he did say the lenses needed a clean which was a bit of an understatement.
Can anyone better that. What is the worst bin you have ever seen anyone using with them adamant of it's greatness? I was laughing with incredulity to much to take in what actual brand and model it was but I think it was a tiny 8x16 reverse porro of some years vintage.
I've had a good laugh about it but it sort of fries my brain also. People sure can surprise.
So I'm sitting on a bench later trying them out and this guy going past asks if I've seen any interesting birds and I told him I was just trying out this new compact (Viking Vistron 8x25, not very sharp and chewing gum for focus grease otherwise pretty nice colours etc and I actually like it although it is limiting for birding but would make a great hike or travel/event bin). So he looks kind of excited and flashes his compact bin case and proclaims "like this you mean, I have one also". So I say great let me try hoping he has something good.
Well I couldn't see a damn thing trough them just a cloudy smudge with some sort of perhaps clearing in the centre and only in one side and after laughing I asked him if he could and he said sure. So I said try these and handed him the Viking which at least I could see quite well through so I expected him to notice quite a difference but no. He replies they seem about the same. At this point I thought ok this guy is an asylem escapee but we decided to have an impromptu test at a distant railway sign. I could just make out the number on it and he couldn't but he hunkered down and braced himself in a sort of ninja position against a fence in an effort to be able to steady himself so was clearly taking it pretty seriously.
It really made me laugh but at the same time it was so strange and I don't want to seem snobbish but truly the binocular he was using was so bad as to be pointless and yet I believe that he is happy with it and I suppose why not if he can't see any difference with a much better binocular which the Vistron is and it isn't spectacular in any way.
I still can't understand it but it's an absolutely true happening today. Can anyone else get this? He seemed a nice chap just out with his nice labrador dog for a walk. I don't think he was a lunatic but that certainly amazed me and I've met a lot of folks while out but never had that happen. I mean about £5 would buy a much better pair than he had and yet he really was happy with them. I only paid under £30 for the Vistron on auction. There is absolutely no way I would even consider letting the pair he had past the outdoor bin and into my house. I mean basically they were a binocular but I really have never ever seen anything so completely useless!
I really just don't get it. He's obviously not a serious user but even then I still don't get how he could actually see anything through them but apparently he could although he did say the lenses needed a clean which was a bit of an understatement.
Can anyone better that. What is the worst bin you have ever seen anyone using with them adamant of it's greatness? I was laughing with incredulity to much to take in what actual brand and model it was but I think it was a tiny 8x16 reverse porro of some years vintage.
I've had a good laugh about it but it sort of fries my brain also. People sure can surprise.
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