Mike Patterson writes:
> And I would recommend a side by side comparison with
>similarly priced binoculars for resolution, brightness and width of field
>before spending this kind of cash on something that sound cool.

Those three qualities (plus flatness of field) are so important that you should
spend as much money as you can on them. In general $300 binos are better than
$150 binos and $800 binos are better than $300 binos although you get
diminishing returns the pricier you get. There is also the priviledge of paying
just for the foreign exchange rate when you get into German & Swiss glass. I
think the image stabilization devices would be helpful to someone with a real
tremor, like Parkinson's disease, but the average person should be able to hold
a 10x glass with just a little practice.

-------Herb Curl

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