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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bearclawthedonut" data-source="post: 1576978" data-attributes="member: 73224">To All:It appears snobism reigns, via parroting silly marketing slogans.  You can only see what your eyes can show you.  The worlds best (not necessarilly the most expensive) binoculars can not show you more than your capable of seeing/understanding.  You're looking at an image (generated by light) when using binoculars, not at a bird.  You should be far more concerned about your own visual limitations than your binoculars optical limitations.  For instance, everyone, no exceptions, is color blind to some degree.  No one sees colors the same.  What is "red" to you has no precise meaning to me or anyone else as there is no common frame of reference.  The detail that you see is far more related to your experience, expectations and of course the illumination, then it is to the cost of your binoculars.  So, you actually see with your eyes and your mind.  Binoculars are simply a tool to get you closer to the object your viewing.  They can not provide happy experiences.Get whatever binoculars that you want, but don't be so arrogant and foolish as to tell others that they can not have the same or even far greater enjoyment as yourself with inexpensive binoculars.  If you don't like them, then don't buy them.  If your enjoyment is limited, then that's your limitation, not your binocular's limitation.  Think for yourself, stop parroting marketing slogans.Spacepilot: I thoroughly understand your greater enjoyment when using your 8x40 Cascade's as opposed to using your 6x30 Yosemite's.  I too, have found all the Yosemite's, particularly the 6x30's to be very, very disappointing.  To be fair, others are very pleased with them.  Perhaps pointing to quality control issues?  And of course 8x is a substantial increase in magnification over 6x.Ronh: "...that purchase should hurt."  Silly, foolish you.  Why are you so threatened by someone's enjoyment of $40 bins????Bearclawthedonut</blockquote>

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