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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pinewood" data-source="post: 1279778" data-attributes="member: 10255">Hello Frank,It would cost me about $545, with tax.   As for exercise, I have been climbing to the tenth floor of my block of flats, apartment house, as daily exercise.For triple the price, I could get a demo 8x42 FL which>would not have an imitative open bridge [Mum told me never to cross an open bridge]>would have a well defined glass component [How much ED do you get?]>would have a locked dioptre settting, although my Fl does get unlocked>would have higher light transmission from Abbe-König prisms, while the                  Promaster does not even have dielectric mirrors>would have a slightly wider FOV>would break the bank [Has anyone else noticed hard times?]Somewhere I wrote that ED/HD/FL glass was the only way to observe, so I welcome a binocular which has it and does not cost a fortune, even if it lacks the higher light transmission of either AK prisms or dielectric mirrors.  However that lack puts this binocular well behind the cutting edge [Not to be confused with cutting up an EDG]  On the other hand, the medical "cafeteria plan" owes me $600 of my  own money.  [I really do not care to explain that one to those who enjoy a less Byzantine health insurance arrangement]Happy bird watching,Arthur :egghead:</blockquote>