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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Kennedy" data-source="post: 1250455" data-attributes="member: 57986">I own a pair of lightweight Nikon 10x25's which I have had for at least 18-20 years, I can't remember. They have been with me to Europe, all over Africa, Australia, Hawaii, Canada, Kazakhstan (in winter at -40 degrees C.), Cuba, Mexico, and so on. They have been dropped, repaired, dropped again, and on one occasion when I was driving an open safari vehicle and got caught in the mother of thunderstorms, they got so wet that an ecosystem started growing inside them. They are currently (and have been for about the past ten years) held together by two strips of Elastoplast. Take a look at the photo and you will see them clearly. They cost me the equivalent of around 70 pounds. My son has a pair of Swarovskis which cost sixteen times as much. But I wouldn't change my old Nikons for anything. Because, quite simply, I have never found a pair of binoculars which are so well suited to my eyes. And that's all that matters.Best wishes,Dave Kennedy</blockquote>