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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KorHaan" data-source="post: 1724287" data-attributes="member: 49910">Hi Sancho,Sorry to hear about your tragedy with the 12x36's. It is so sad that gravity just can't be a bit more forgiving for us binoholics, and the repair afterward not being to your satisfaction only makes it worse. The decisions you have to make are tough. At least you've got optics to sell, that's the only good point I can see; I haven't, so I have to be happy with just two pairs and not enough money to get more quality optics.The combination of 10x and 18x is great, yeah, but owling with the 18x50's as I did last month, was not a very pleasant experience ( to say the least). I need more light and definitely bigger exit pupil. It's very hard to line up your pupils with the exit pupils of the 18x50 ( or 10x30, for that matter) in near dark.Of course I contemplate more than I'd like about what to acquire next, even if I can't afford it. The binoholic in me just refuses to cave in and buy a cheapish 7x50 porro, which would be the sane thing to do if I'm honest. After all, I could go owling tomorrow if I did that, and forget about anything else, but I wouldn't be happy. That's how it works, you build up the tension to a level when you actually start convincing yourself that you have a legal right to buy optics you can't afford, and then there's no way back. So.... next month is my birthday. 5 more weeks to go, I feel I'm going to get something and it will be... ?Best regards, Ronaldthe real</blockquote>

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