Cameras and Lenses
Equipment (revisited)
Morning'
Steve started a good thread a year ago on equipment:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread...light=equipment
and it turned out to be quite interesting indeed !
It would be useful to revisit this, and more interestingly, to see what has changed. What equipment changes have people being making (bins/scopes/cameras). Trend towards particular models/brands/specifications shifting at all ?
As for me, I had a Bushnell Legend 8x42 + Kowa 821 (not the new M one) for ages, and my current setup is 8x32BN Leicas and 62 (non apo) Leica scope. Not quite Bill Oddie but getting there... 
Still have not got into the digiscoping thing yet (£££).
Anyone else ? Current setup, and if changed in last year, from what ?
cheers,
I've changed both my binoculars and my scope in the last 9 months.Got a very good deal on the Swarovski ATS80HD which i could'nt resist and 2 months ago changed my bins from Zeiss 7x42( i'd had these for the last 15 years) to the Leica Ultravids 8x42 Which i am very pleased with.The lens caps are crap but that aside these are superb binoculars.
I choose the most unusual (I was going to say unorthodox, until I looked up the real meaning of the word) scopes, so had a Celestron C5 with Nagler eyepieces a year ago. I now have a Televue 85 with Radian and Nagler eyepieces. It is easier to take with me, though more difficult than the Swaro ST80 that I tried for a few months, but the view, even at 120, is amazing. I had 8x32 SEs and 8x42 HGs a year ago and still have the SEs but have switched to 10x32 HGs and added 10x42 SEs. Not much difference except lighter and gives me the choices I need until different circumstances.