How then when you have a double digit bin selection of options do you decide which to take along?
Normally I've bought a new one and so take that to try and gauge it's enjoyability and usefulness.
I've now got to the stage where I want to always take two along or a bin and monocular but I'm now trying to work out which pairs best with which.
I'm thinking Carson Mini Scout 7x18 (since I modified that it's great and can slip in my sleeve pocket) and my Hawke 10x25 Endurance for any distance stuff (I'm cycling so compact is good), but then my brilliant all-rounder Kowa 8x32 SV is saying "take me, take me", and I could pair that with a monoc or the 10x Hawke and then there is my little Vistron 8x25 that seems to want to go as well and that's before I even get to the M7 10x30 and Hawke Sapphire 8x43 and it's to early still for Papilio dinosaur bugs.
Obvioulsy just a light hearted thread for a laid back Sunday but I'm kind of stuck with deciding.
Think I have to go with that little Carson Mini Scout again as I have the 8x22 Scout on the way and I suppose that will give me a better idea of things for when it arrives plus the little Scout is still blowing me away since I fixed the long focus wheel issue. Everybody really should buy one of those 7x18 and do the mod on it. It's brilliant and hope of hopes that someday some-one makes an even better version (bigger prisms) and I'm definitely buying. That big 9.3 fov is addictive. It really is the Tardis of binoculars. They should have called it that. Really hoping the 8x22 is as good even if I need to mod that. If so I can see me probably buying the 10x25 as well.
Normally I've bought a new one and so take that to try and gauge it's enjoyability and usefulness.
I've now got to the stage where I want to always take two along or a bin and monocular but I'm now trying to work out which pairs best with which.
I'm thinking Carson Mini Scout 7x18 (since I modified that it's great and can slip in my sleeve pocket) and my Hawke 10x25 Endurance for any distance stuff (I'm cycling so compact is good), but then my brilliant all-rounder Kowa 8x32 SV is saying "take me, take me", and I could pair that with a monoc or the 10x Hawke and then there is my little Vistron 8x25 that seems to want to go as well and that's before I even get to the M7 10x30 and Hawke Sapphire 8x43 and it's to early still for Papilio dinosaur bugs.
Obvioulsy just a light hearted thread for a laid back Sunday but I'm kind of stuck with deciding.
Think I have to go with that little Carson Mini Scout again as I have the 8x22 Scout on the way and I suppose that will give me a better idea of things for when it arrives plus the little Scout is still blowing me away since I fixed the long focus wheel issue. Everybody really should buy one of those 7x18 and do the mod on it. It's brilliant and hope of hopes that someday some-one makes an even better version (bigger prisms) and I'm definitely buying. That big 9.3 fov is addictive. It really is the Tardis of binoculars. They should have called it that. Really hoping the 8x22 is as good even if I need to mod that. If so I can see me probably buying the 10x25 as well.
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