William Lewis
Wishing birdwatching paid the bills.
Hi Paul. What model are the binoculars in your well stocked shelves with the chamfered prism housing like the e2 and the large numbering on the diopter ring?Don’t worry you won’t hurt my feelings, and I apologize that I hurt yours. I’m sure you’ve heard the term you pay for what you get , I fully understand that some people can’t necessarily see the difference and or want to see the difference when it comes to having to spend money you don’t have, or are uncomfortable spending money on what many would say are incremental improvements, regardless of name brands. I have a whole collection of optics you may never have heard of. We also can agree that there are lovely binoculars half the price of the Aurora that are equally good to some. Again I don’t want to hurt your feelings accusing you of any falsities, but I do have to share that I’m shocked that you’ve not had one issue over the years that you recognize with 20 Opticrons , considering how many people have complained about the less than stellar focusers. Its very possible your not recognizing the issues as well. Enjoy your day, I’m off today to go do some observing with a few vintage SWA toys.
Those old wide angled Porro's must be nice - given you've got a range of them how do find eye piece comfort? I only ask as I've recently sold the 10x50 Decarems we discussed a while back as I'm just used to the more forgiving eye box of more modern bins or at least bins with slightly longer eye relief! Thank you.
More £ generally does mean better BUT it depends on what you value - you can get a cheap 7x50 hawk marine and have a larger exit pupil than any swaro's, zeiss, or leica's or you can buy a kowa 6.5x 32 and have a larger field of view of any of there current offerings.but you are stating that your high priced binoculars are better than others lower priced binoculars,what's wrong with others opinions,so the people who come on here to learn can see that more £££'s don't always mean better, it's just others opinions.
I like a top of the line bino- don't get me wrong and I can and enjoy seeing the difference.
What is useful with lower priced optics though and for me where they do represent excellent value is that you can have a couple or 3 specialised instruments that will each do better than 1 all round alpha in the areas they excel at - you can have a better view for less outlay and more toys to play with!
You should.never looked through a pair of the so called alpha binoculars so i wouldn't know, but others have and they have stated their opinions and their opinions get rubbished
Will