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From: dune@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Greg Pasquariello)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Binoculars & Scopes
Message-ID: <1516@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Aug 89 13:19:10 GMT
References: <1989Aug17.164037.22567@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: dune@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Greg Pasquariello)
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In article <1989Aug17.164037.22567@utzoo.uucp> rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising) writes:
|Kowa scopes are great, but they're very expensive.  I'd urge
|anyone to try to use 10X binoculars if you can.  I know that
|the conventional wisdom is that 7X are best, but I and many others
|that I know use 10X without difficulty, and find the extra
|magnification to be useful--so you might like to try them out
|before you rush out and purchase 7Xs.
|
|Migration here not yet moving much.
|
|--Jim Rising

I think that depends somewhat on the binoc.  I wouldn't rush out and by
$30 (or even $100) 10x binox, because the image they give is often distorted.
Most times, they even provide a wonderful colored halo around the bird,
especially at a distance (for a while I though I was psychic :-)).

I had used a pair of Bushnell 10x binox for years, while I saved my pennies
for a pair of Zeiss 10x.  Then, I went to buy them, and while waiting for
the salesman to come out, I peeked into a pair of Leitz 7x.  I have been
using my Leitz for about a year now, and I have been as happy as a clam.
It turned out that the brightness and distortion free image MORE than made
up for the lesser power, and I have a larger field of view too (a special
consideration, since I bird with glasses on).


Greg Pasquariello
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