mjensen6577
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What I found most interesting about this review was the graph with price on the x-axis and 'quality index' on the y axis. Seems like the law of diminishing returns really starts to take place around $1000, with extremely small improvements in 'quality index' only occurring when spending DOUBLE or even TRIPLE the amount of money.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/Page.aspx?pid=2675
Jaymie, You observations are correct. Optically, $1000 binoculars are getting very close to the top. My analogy in the optics world is that it takes an incredible investment of money to get another 1/4 mile an hour out of an Indy race car. Optics are quite the same. Only a few of us top companies will invest to hit these benchmarks. This is exactly why Zeiss has split our categories as we have.