My parents have a small garden with assorted feeders, which they can watch from their kitchen window. I'd like to get them a pair of Kitchen Bins to stay there and let them enjoy the birds more easily - at the moment they're borrowing my old 10x42s, which aren't really up to the job due primarily to lack of close focus [Which needs to be 4m or less].
I am not allowed to spend a lot of money on them* - going much over £100 will get me in trouble - but I don't want to get them £40 stuff either [they have proper bins with silver Kestrels on, so appreciate a decent view...]. The bins in question also need to be compact and waterproof - there's steam and limited space to keep them.
After all that babble, we're talking about reverse porros of maybe 8x25 or so versus low-end roofs around the 8x32 scale. I've read a lot of specs but have very little experience of using them [especially the porros] and I might not have time to find and try for myself - so, can anyone shed any light on the issue? Are the newer roofs like the Hawke Endurance and Nature-Trek and Opticron Natureview a match for reverse porros like the Nikon Travelite and Bushnell H2O?
[[*Kitchen Bins of choice would be Nikon EIIs/SEs or Zeiss Classic 8x56s of course!
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