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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theo98" data-source="post: 3496621" data-attributes="member: 132099">Hi David and Canip,Thanks for your helpful input. There are always 2 sides to a story, as we all "see" things differently! It's been said in many pages of BF, "try before you buy". A specialized tool like the Canons will not work with every pair of eyes and presents unique ergonomic differences that certainly turns-off many a birder. For those reasons and the fact I've never had an opportunity to try them in the past, I've waited a long time. Owning and using 4 different Canon EF L-Glass SLR lenses, I'm very familiar with their excellent "IS" products (all still going strong after 12 years). Figured I had nothing to loose with their current bino sales and the vendors generous return policy. For my eyes and style of glassing, happy I found a very -portable tripod like system- that is not as good as a tripod itself, but much easier to deploy while on the excursion trip.They do not posses better optics to the SF, SV, UV+ or probably even the NV (so far, no experience). Their non-transferable warranty falls way short of most in the optics market with potential costly repairs in the future. But for Me they present another unique way to see, in an alpha hand-held stabilized view, all wildlife and the environment. IMHO, instituting an efficient\effective IS system in a comparative size\features\optics of the top alpha offerings would be the single best improvement they can make to today's top glass!  Ted</blockquote>

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