This is the story of one mans journey and ultimate success in finding the best binoculars in the world :
There was a stupid man who had a pair of Nikon 7x35 E's. One day he thought that it was time to upgrade them. His bins were "Porro Prisms". Nikon had made them when the human eye first began to distinguish color. Yes much time had passed.
So he bought a new Zeiss 8x30. One look through them and he knew something was wrong. He hurriedly looked through his archaic E's and they were much better. Undaunted by this dissapointment, he bought a Zeiss 7x42 Classic, which he knew, god had made with his own hands. When they arrived he looked through them and while they felt heavenly in his hands and generously forgiving to the non- perfectly placed eye (unlike his relics) they were no clearer and broke his heart by being dishonest. they made things brighted but to do so they painted them yellow !
Now his dissapointment escalated to distress. He sat up nights looking at money paper and they were dishonest. He spent all day looking at flowers and they were dishonest. Could he journey the few remaining years of his life with a friendly but dishonest companion by his side ? NO NO his conscience would not allow that !
What should he do now that all seemed lost ?
Like I said, he was a stupid man but he knew he was stupid. God had been kind in bestowing upon him this knowledge. Perhaps in consolation for having made him stupid. So he went in search of a fabled tribe and one day he found them. They lived behind a mirror on his desk. They never appeared or spoke to him but gave him a magic word by which he could communicate with them. So he did and the elders of the tribe spoke to him with a silent code that they put on the mirror on his desk.
They explained to him that to get the finest view you have first to fix the Binoculee. Once fixed he will find the best Binocular.
He spent many days and nights with the mirror on his desk. At first he was confused and anxious but then one day he awoke and saw the clearest view in the world.
He had found the best Binocular ever made. It was called BF 7x24 and It lived behind his mirror at www.birdforum.net.
Just what I thought.!
Nice story...it took me a minute to understand that magnification/objective diameter combination.