I’ve just upgraded my 20 year old mass market Binos to a pair of Swarovski NL pure 12x42s. They are utterly fantastic, just spent a wonderful morning watching red kites over the hills. However, the problem is that it’s made my husband jealous. He’s historically preferred photography to binoculars, and hasn’t used his previous pair much on our trips over the years. So if we’re going to spend silly amounts on another pair I’d quite like some that compliment my new ones rather than just buying another pair the same.
Any recommendations? If it makes a difference he wears glasses and has poor eyesight without them, whereas I don’t. Immediate use case is a safari in two months time, longer term wildlife holidays, expedition cruising and general bird and wildlife watching. While we do hike I don’t tend to carry the binoculars with me when I do, so I guess one option is a pair small enough for that, but would he then still feel hard done by?
Any recommendations? If it makes a difference he wears glasses and has poor eyesight without them, whereas I don’t. Immediate use case is a safari in two months time, longer term wildlife holidays, expedition cruising and general bird and wildlife watching. While we do hike I don’t tend to carry the binoculars with me when I do, so I guess one option is a pair small enough for that, but would he then still feel hard done by?