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Advice needed!
Thank you very much. The pictures were taken with a camera (Olympus OM1 300mm f4 and 1.4 converter). I have been birding and taking photos most of my life and thought many times about merging the two hobbies, but until earlier this year never got around to it-probably too mean to spend the...- BGS61
- Post #24
- Forum: Binoculars
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Looking at upgrading
Although new to contributing, I have just made a few comments comparing the 8x32EL against an 8.5x42 EL (albeit an older model) and a new Zeiss SFL 8x40 in a thread on the general binocular section Advice needed! I got a bit carried away but they might be food for thought? For many years I was... -
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Advice needed!
Thank you! I was a bit doubtful about expressing view, being a newbie. The Kestrel was about 30-40m away from the end of my back garden. The pictures are cropped but aimed to reflect the detail available though the binos. She is a regular visitor, but hasn't appeared again this week. I'm a...- BGS61
- Post #21
- Forum: Binoculars
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Advice needed!
Thanks to all for their many interesting and useful suggestions and comments. Being new to posting on these forum thingy it was difficult to know how much background info to post without boring everybody. No offence to those whose suggestions were not acted upon, but those options were either...- BGS61
- Post #19
- Forum: Binoculars
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Advice needed!
Thanks for the replies. The common theme is go to an optics retailer try the things for yourself! I couldn't agree more and have have given this advice myself more than once! I feel stupid for asking now! In forty years of buying bins I have never ordered mail and always tried them first at a...- BGS61
- Post #13
- Forum: Binoculars
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Advice needed!
That's tempting, but probably more than I need at this point in term of weight, size (and my wife tells me cost!). I switched from 8.5x42s to 32s for portability on increasingly long walking trips and the 32s still provide a superb view-for me!- BGS61
- Post #11
- Forum: Binoculars
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Advice needed!
Thanks. I am getting very temped! As I said to Maljunulo, "perhaps I shouldn't be so lazy as to shy away from trying them an sending them back if they don't suit!"- BGS61
- Post #5
- Forum: Binoculars
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Advice needed!
Thanks for replying. Yes, as I said in the original post I have handled and looked through them briefly. They seemed very sharp and bright, but the test was short, sometime ago, in pretty good light and I didn't pay full attention to them. So far as I recall nothing in the handling immediately...- BGS61
- Post #4
- Forum: Binoculars
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Advice needed!
A long time lurker, but this is my first post! I am always fascinated by the range of opinions and technical knowledge of optics from some members. This a something of repeat question so I’m not sure if anybody will be able to add to the many previous threads on this particular binocular, but...- BGS61
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Stay-on case for Leica APO 65 scope wanted?
Thanks MS I Ordered one off the back of your last post, it arrived this morning and as you said, it fits almost perfectly. Only tried it in the garden overlooking fields and access to the both focus wheels was ok (via the unzipped eye piece cover rather than the flap) . I didn't think I'd miss...