"My sweet spot's .0013% bigger than yours."
"Oh yeah, well you've got a speck of dust in yours and I don't."
Do any of the posters of this kind of nonsense actually spend much time in the field watching birds instead of looking for things like chromatic aberration? Why do we rarely see any of the names that pop up with regularity in binocular threads in any of the bird-related discussions?
Is it just me, or are there others reading the binocular threads who think these Leica-Swarovski-Zeiss "my bin is better than your bin" slagging matches serve the interests of no one reading them?
-Adam
Good point.
I reckon most of us buy our bins using 3 criteria, how much money can I spend, what handles the best for me and what does a bird look like to my eyes through any chosen pair of bins? I bought the pair of binoculars that answered all those criteria and ended up with Minox 10x52. They were not what I went out to buy, but after trying Pentax, Nikon, Opticron, Steiner, and RSPB own brand, all within my pocket, they suited me the best. I,ve tried Swaros and leica and frankly couldn't see enough difference in performance to warrant doubling the amount I spent!
Chhers
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I've tried Swaros and leica and frankly couldn't see enough difference in performance to warrant doubling the amount I spent!
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Exactly. Couldn't agree with you more. If binoculars (or scopes) have a German name they are triple (or quadruple) the price of locally produced ones here in Japan. I have other things to spend my hard earned money on too.