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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CliveP" data-source="post: 3393404" data-attributes="member: 85835">Good idea David.Kidnap her 3<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Ok of course I mean that's a nice offer and I hope it may work out.When someone askes online, hey which is the best of such and such say A,B, or C.Person 1 says it's B for sure. Person 2 says definitely C and person 3 says has to be A.So riddle me this, which is the best?I think Janice and all other new people asking the same thing need to understand that there is no best for everyone. There are choices (a great great many and more constantly added) and you take your choice. If you can try first then that obviously helps otherwise you have to take a chance. Here we can help narrow the choice if you can say what you are after and I mean more than I want some good bins.Admittedly Janice seems to be somewhat lost and we really don't know about her vision but for the sake of it an 8x32 is fine during normal light for normal eyes as the eye pupil is small so Janice you do not need a large bin for normal daytime. Larger bins are better for low light such as dawn or dusk. You should really look up some binocular beginner basics which would be very helpful in getting you off to a start.I have bought two bins based on the good things said on here about them and am vey happy with the bins but I also bought one I didn't like and returned that was endlessly praised and still is. The rest I just guessed based on info I found and some are good and others not so.It seems that people think ok all you experts, just tell me exactly which binocular I should buy that will be just perfect for me in every way. That would be a great convenience and trick but probably take some of the fun out of it too but I suppose folks could think it's just a matter to log in here and hey presto every answer is provided and my god we must be so dumb if we don't know.Or maybe I got it all wrong?I'm just saying it's not a very realistic question. Even if some-one owned and extensively tested all those bins that Janice (or whoever it might be) mentioned would they even then be able to say this is the "best" one for you Janice? I don't think so. They could advise or suggest various options and models and this has been done already based on the little info supplied by the questioner.Here is a good example of how to do it in the very next thread <a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=323755" target="_blank">http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=323755</a> which may help Janice to read through and follow.It would have been useful to say how the binoculars were to be used such as in what terrain, over distance or medium or close range, in low or normal light, wet conditions, general all round use, wearing them for long periods. These are just some of the types info that should be considered when choosing a bin for those beginning a search with no existing knowledge if you want to arrive at the bin that will best suit the job or just be like us and spend years buying loads of them.</blockquote>

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