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Spent A Week With The 7x35 Retrovid...
Im the former and you the latter? Not in my world. -
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Why not? They're true. Its true, capitalism not part of the Declaration or Constitution, has gained a bit too much influence. 200 years is not so late stage though. The thing is still evolving. No one claimed it to be perfect. "In order to form a more perfect union..." Adam Smith, Milton... -
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Well no, you have to round up!:) -
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Yea, that was interesting. To be a bit silly about it, I wondered if you deleted magnification from the list, what do you then call the thing? What sort of device could provide FOV, DOV, resolution, immersion, etc. without X? If you think about it, theres what, something like 25 brands of... -
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OK, lets have some fun. Know more than you? Nah. But lemme try in this potentially kinky way. Several months back there was a thread here asking what were folks favorite or most important attributes in choosing a binocular. We can all guess the answers - FOV, depth of field, ergos, AFOV, 8 vs... -
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I agree. If this isn’t about fun, why are we here? -
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Paul, "Agenda" infers something sort of devious about marketing folks and their process. Is that fair? For companies to stay in business and continue to serve most of us, most of the time (notice the riff), they need to think this way. Profit is not a 4 letter word. Adding this or that product... -
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For all those reasons I come to the opposite conclusion Paul. Theres not much difference, so why? Folks here belittle the difference between 8 and 10, while others come and pray for a 7. Since I come from a product planning, manufacturing background you might reasonably accuse me of being maker... -
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I hear ya. I bird with a pal I met on the trails multiple times. He birds with a camera. I haul binos and scope. He takes pictures of birds he knows and certainly works hard to get better at his craft. But for those he does not know, he sends pics to Merlin and EBird and has them do the... -
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That said, and Ive written this before, think it was 1971ish, out of college, back from the military, just married, no career yet in motion, living in New Hampshire, I wandered into an optics shop in Hanover. There I saw my first Trinovid roof prism bino and the smoke started to rise from the... -
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Im kinda with you. It is one reason Im choosing to think of binos as tools, rather than collectibles, Objets D'art, (dont think I ever wrote that term before... ha ha). The tool argument is easily made and most birders I see seem to agree. Hard to glimpse the latest and greatest we spend so much... -
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Prolly not so strange. Cant we suspect the bino makers know their market pretty well, the number and preferences of we their customers? There are several 7X fans here on BF and you may know many. Where I bird, mostly salt marsh and open water, things are different. Seems a decent guess the...