I unfortunately tend to agree with Bob's comments re good optics. As an impoverished doctoral student (some time ago) I used to use a pair of Zeiss Jena (east German, now defunct?) 8*30 roof prisms. Extremely good value, very nice image, but I owned two pairs and the prisms were knocked out of alignment in both. Admittedly at the time I was researching deer ecology in the field, and the bins took a lot of use and abuse, but I know of three other folk with the same model who had the same problem. Nice optics, poor build quality I guess. I now use a pair of Nikon 7x50 WPC (water proof compass). I really like these goggles (and would recommend them), but I made the mistake last year (thus the unfortunately above) of looking through an acquaintance's Leicas. 8x40's I think can't remember the model, but looking through them was a BIG mistake. The world truly does look better through leicas, and my pleasure looking through my Nikons is now somewhat diminished. Reminds me of the old story - feed your dog porridge and he's happy as a pig in s*#t. Feed him meat, and he'll never touch porridge again. But then again, AFAIR those Leica bins cost 800+ sterling, an opportunity cost of most of a new glass kayak. YGWYPF Cheers Colin Calder 57º19'N 2º10'W *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Aug 04 1999 - 08:39:11 PDT
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