Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 23:45:54 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Greg Downing Subject: Re: RFI: need info on economical binoculars MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I want to clarify that there is a difference between the Swift Ultralites and the Autobahn. The later is much more rugged, but is still not waterproof and does sometimes fog up when taken from a warm house into cold weather. Looks like I'm not the only fan of Swifts for a "serious" entry level birder who can enjoy them for years. Greg Downing Parkton, MD gregdowning@mindspring.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Hartman" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 10:10 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] RFI: need info on economical binoculars > Marshall, Toni and I started our birding endeavor 7 years > ago with Swift 8x42 Ultralites. We were very pleased > with them for several years > until we took them on a (rough) pelagic trip. > Be warned: they aren't waterproof, or even water- > resistant. They fogged up, and eventually got (salt!) > water inside so that they had to go back to Swift for > complete cleaning (which was rather reasonable in cost, > as I recall). > > Also, they aren't as rugged as more expensive binocs - > easily knocked out of adjustment. (I'm kind of rough > on binocs I guess.) > > We still have them as loaners, and occasionally use them > ourselves, although we have (waterproof) Swarovskis now. > > Bob Hartman > Silver Spring, MD > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================