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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dracon" data-source="post: 1385665" data-attributes="member: 14799">Sancho - I enjoyed your post for a number of reasons.  When a $300 pair of porros compete favorably with the vaunted Swarovski binoculars, it says something.  And also because you live in Ireland while I live in rather bleak Montana.  We wife are longing to see something green beside our house plants.  We won't have anything green (other than the evergreen trees) to look at for at least 3 more months.  And we live at parallel 45.  This coming Wednesday we drive 650 miles to Seattle Washington, just to get somewhere where we may see some green grass. I had two Nikon  8x30 E II binoculars which were passed on to friends.  They have such short barrels for my very large hands.  But the Nikon  EII 10x35 stays.  It happens to have the very worst covering of any binocular I own.  What passes for covering keeps coming off despite re-gluing. Why Nikon didn't rubber cover them is one of those strange mysteries coming out of the Orient.  I do have a Swarovski 8x30 porro which is rated as waterproof.  It provides an excellent image,  (really better than the El or SLCs ) but possesses the worst excuse for fold down rubber eye cups ever put on a binocular.  The Swarovski is the old Zeiss classic in form, almost Spartan in appearance.  Why Swarovski would make that glass must be an olive branch to the number of old fossils like me who find change difficult to handle.I hope you do find a Nikon 8x32 SE. This crazy economy has created some dark humor for English speaking folks and some one liners.  In monetary matters liquidity has another definition today.  Liquidity according to a broker friend is what happens when you look at your investment portfolio.John</blockquote>

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