Robin Harrison
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I wonder if someone can offer any advice.
The vision in the centre of my left eye is poor and will remain so but my right is champion!
I use a Swaro 8x30 binocular but as I spend quite a lot of time on the very western-most part of Vancouver Island ( often in a boat) looking at distant birds,I was thinking of getting something more powerful.
However I do own ( and love ) a Nikon Ed 50 with a X30 lens............as most here would agree on a tripod, it's a wonderful set-up.
It seems to me given my minor visual impairment that this would be good solution and save buying another pair of bins except that, even with practice, freehand it's hard to lock on quickly to birds ( esp. in flight)
I'm wondering if I bought a zoom, starting with a lowish power ie X 13-30, this could be an alternative.
So I would not be using it as a low powered scope ie wanting as much magnification as possible, but as a substitute for binoculars so anything over X10 would be fine.
Thanks for any help.
Robin
The vision in the centre of my left eye is poor and will remain so but my right is champion!
I use a Swaro 8x30 binocular but as I spend quite a lot of time on the very western-most part of Vancouver Island ( often in a boat) looking at distant birds,I was thinking of getting something more powerful.
However I do own ( and love ) a Nikon Ed 50 with a X30 lens............as most here would agree on a tripod, it's a wonderful set-up.
It seems to me given my minor visual impairment that this would be good solution and save buying another pair of bins except that, even with practice, freehand it's hard to lock on quickly to birds ( esp. in flight)
I'm wondering if I bought a zoom, starting with a lowish power ie X 13-30, this could be an alternative.
So I would not be using it as a low powered scope ie wanting as much magnification as possible, but as a substitute for binoculars so anything over X10 would be fine.
Thanks for any help.
Robin
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