I just got my new Edmund Scientific's Scientifics catalog and have found a new pair of binoculars to lust over...
The Carson Super Zoom 20x-80x Binoculars! They can be mine for only $139.95 plus 99 cents for shipping.
Or perhaps I should save money and get the "United States Air & Space Depot" Sea & Field Binoculars with a "50 Mile Range" for only $19 plus $6 shipping and handling and $1 for priority processing. (These were on a flyer I received with something I bought.) These folks also offer a 25,000 Mile Range World-Wide Radio - "A Giant Ear to the Entire Universe."
I think of PT Barnum often.
Seriously, if the Carson 20-80x zooms only had an IS feature
Clear skies, Alan
[QUOTE=AlanFrench]"50 Mile Range" [/QUOTE]
Someday I'll have to let these guys look at some galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, which are visible even in my cheap Orion Vista 10x50.
Actually, it's really a fun catalog. More so now than in the past. The current catalog seems aimed at inquisitive kids who are interested in science. Nothing wrong with that. There are lots of things in it that will pique their curiosity and educate them to boot. My catalogue is the Fall issue and I can't find those bins you describe in it. There are some half decent Celestron 25 x 100 bins for $399.00 and they even throw in a free $99.00 tripod for them while they last. Anybody looking for a 3 dimensional bird scope?
A few years back, they carried some good books on optics and even published some that they wrote. They were quite informative. I have their "All About Optics" by Sam Brown. It is Astronomy Oriented. They currently have a great bargain on their "Astroscan" telescope at $199.00 I'm seriously thinking of buying one just to see How it works with a quality eyepiece like my Televue 24mm Panoptic. There is a fine selection of telescopes and microscopes but I'm afraid it isn't birding oriented so occasionaly a cheap bino will sneak in.
Bob