If you don't got to the pub twice a week, or go out for dinner every weekend, or have kids or don't spend on high end audio or iphones or tablets or bet on horses, you can tell yourself you are only spending what you have saved.
Lee
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The UK and optics prices (1 Viewer)
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If you don't got to the pub twice a week, or go out for dinner every weekend, or have kids or don't spend on high end audio or iphones or tablets or bet on horses, you can tell yourself you are only spending what you have saved.
Lee
There really is nothing us Brits love better than having a good moan eh? Looking at another piece of fine German engineering:
Porsche 911 Carrera - price in 1984 £22,357; price today "from £95,975" (for Carrera GTS - add various options and the price very quickly increases) - 4.3x increase.
Zeiss "alpha" binocular - price in 1984 @£360 (for Dialyt 10x40BGAT); price today (for SF 10x42) c.£1,900 - 4.2x increase.
That's almost exactly the same. And alpha binoculars - like German sports cars - are "want" rather than "need" items. No one needs a 911 to get from point A to point B, and hardly any of us truly need a SF or similar product to go birding.
Porsche 911 Carrera - price in 1984 £22,357; price today "from £95,975" (for Carrera GTS - add various options and the price very quickly increases) - 4.3x increase.
Zeiss "alpha" binocular - price in 1984 @£360 (for Dialyt 10x40BGAT); price today (for SF 10x42) c.£1,900 - 4.2x increase.
That's almost exactly the same. And alpha binoculars - like German sports cars - are "want" rather than "need" items. No one needs a 911 to get from point A to point B, and hardly any of us truly need a SF or similar product to go birding.
Indeed but if we continue down this thread of reductionism (and I agree there are many bins costing less than Zeisses/Leicas or Swaros that do the birding thing just fine) nobody needs to go birding either.
And while a 911 will convey you from A to B I doubt whether many of them are bought with solely this in mind. I would guess that most are bought for the pleasure of driving and it is a brave person who will argue that the pleasure of birding is more worthwhile than the pleasure of driving.
Lee
