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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WJC" data-source="post: 3619700" data-attributes="member: 25191">170920As indicated throughout my book, the quality of a binocular’s performance is subjective (especially in cheaper instruments) and is mostly found between the ears of individual observers. But, it still sounds as though you are looking for an argument. Yet, I don’t see the need. I have stated my case—which does not include sales because some company has too many of a certain model in inventory—and you have stated yours. Is it not good enough for others to draw their own conclusions? Was my friendly recommendation to agree to disagree, agreeably somehow short of the conclusion you had in mind? You seem to base your data on the photos and prices found on an Internet search; I base mine on repeatedly repairing inexpensive binoculars or losing the work because the customer recognized the repair would not be cost effective in a “disposable economy.” As far as I’m concerned, you delight in kicking dead horses. I see no future in it.  Directly before the statement you are so spun up about, did I not clearly state that production techniques were getting better, which would indicate to most people that we would see prices on all qualities of instruments drop? Are you not willing to admit that, across the board, consumer expectations are dropping as well? Please read from the middle of page 59 to the end of the vignette.I don’t want to spend my waning years in court for spilling all I know—firsthand—just to defend a position that really needs no defense. However, if I did, we would be burying a number of sacred cows.I will liken this to the fellow who is adamant about his binocular being “perfectly collimated,” when a calibrated Fujinon U.B.M.M is saying that it is WAY passed the most lenient tolerances in both the X and Y axes, the fellow who looked through a “1,000 power” binocular on his ship that was really a 20x120, or the fellow who, at 60, swears by his auto focus binocular when statistically (medically/scientifically) he has no more than a 2-diopter accommodation in his eyes.I am totally happy with you believing whatever you want to believe. But as pointed out in Vignettes #19 and # 27, we don’t always UNDERSTAND what we THINK we SEE. “There; now can we be friends, again.”—Val Kilmer, Tombstone, 1993Bill</blockquote>

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