Hi Tweets

Tom Foote writes (edited):

> My neighbor bought both ED and non-ED bins...looking at Mallards in bright
> sunlight and concluded there was little if any difference
> in the two binoculars..we also concluded that the reason
> wasn't that the ED's weren't very good, but that the low
> end bins were SO GOOD that they simply crowded up really
> close to the ED's...

In bright sunlight ED's and non-ED bins/scopes have much the same
performance, but the fair test is in *low* light-level conditions--dusk,
overcast (does it ever get that way in Cascadia?), forest gloom--then ED
performance leaves non-ED glass looking dimly at rapidly receding tail-lights.

Michael Price We aren't flying...we're falling with style!
Vancouver BC Canada -Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story
mprice at mindlink.net