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From: jespah@milton.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Binoculars
Message-ID: <1991May4.002149.16123@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 00:21:49 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Now that the posts on spotting scopes have got you all in the mood, I hope
you won't mind answering the classic binoculars question -- which ones 
should I get?  Actually, they're for my father, for Father's Day.  I'm 
looking for something no more than a couple hundred dollars.  Right now
I'm using a pair of Bausch & Lomb 10x40's (the ones with the National
Audubon emblem) that are quite nice, but I don't know how they compare with
anything else, as they are the only decent binocs I've ever used (my previous
pair were K-Mart 7x35's, which cost a big $25 :-).  
My dad had detached retinas recently and has trouble seeing in dim light,
for what that's worth.  Any ideas? 

-- 
"We found on St. Paul's only two kinds of birds - the booby and the noddy....
Both are of a tame and stupid disposition, and are so unaccustomed to visitors,
that I could have killed any number of them with my geological hammer."
(Charles Darwin)       Kathleen Hunt / jespah@milton.u.washington.edu