Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > At 7:37 AM -0500 1/18/07, Eric Korenman wrote: > >> >My mother-in-law wants to buy my father-in-law general purpose / >> >birding binoculars. >> >They like to stroll, wander, point out houses and birds. That kind of >> >thing. >> > >> >I know NOTHING about binoculars but they consider me to be the >> >resident optics expert. >> > >> >Can anyone recommend magnification >> >and a few models covering low, middle and high price points ? >> > >> >Low is around $100, middle say $200-500 and high.. whatever Leica >> >binoculars cost. >> > >> >thanks, >> >Eric >> > > Have a look at Canon image stabilized binoculars. Optically they > might not be as good as the very best from Leica, Zeiss or Swarovski > but the IS more than makes up for that. They would be in the upper > price bracket, but are fantastic at the higher magnifications. From the moment I had the Canon IS binoculars my Zeiss are gathering dust. Not that the optical quality is better in the Canon, which BTW is not worse, but IS makes the Canon so comfortable! Felix