Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:45:11 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: new bins MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, Finally after more than 30 years of birding, and having been through pairs of various binoculars, I have finally purchased what I hope will be my last. I have been using Swift Audubon 8.5x44's for more than a dozen years (in various incarnations), and before that a worthy pair of Bushnell 8x42's. Now I have made the move to a smaller, lighter pair of NIKON 8x32 Premier LX's. My biggest fear before I ordered them was if I would be able to see well enough in low light conditions in early morning or dusk, or overcasr weather. They just arrived last night so I will give them a good workout for the next few days and report back. So far they seem to be excellent. My choice was made after a long-time birding friend and optics hound bought himself the Nikon 8x42 LX's. I immedietely liked them, except they were very heavy and had too narrow a field for me. I didn't want to move up in weight, nor lose much field of view, as I do a lot of close-in warbler watching. I told him that when Nikon made something lighter and with a wider field, they would have my attention. Well, they did. Any one else out there use mid-size bins (8x28-32's) as their regular full-time birding bins? How do you like them in lower than normal light conditions? Reviews? Rick Sussman Ashton,MD warblerick@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================