[Public-List] Binoculars

[Gordon Laco]

I have to say the visual aid I liked the most was ½ of a Fujinon 7x50 that had made a fast trip from the foretop to the deck in a sail training brigantine named STV PATHFINDER.   The binoculars broke in half... one half was useless, it’s prisms all displaced... but the other was perfect so I rescued it from the garbage to use in my own boat.

I used the rescued half as a monocular for years until eventually it had another fall it didn’t survive.

We’ve got binoculars now, a pair of good 7x50’s.

Gord.
#426 Surprise

On 2018-01-09, 4:26 PM, "Public-List on behalf of Stephen Gwyn via Public-List" <public-list-bounces at lists.alberg30.org on behalf of public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

    
    Higher than 7x is jumpy, lower than 6x isn't very useful.
    
    Larger aperture gives you more light, but when it's really
    dark, it doesn't help anyway. I think it's mattered maybe
    twice to me in the last 30 years, in the twilight. And
    modern coatings really increase transmission.
    
    I really like my West Marine binoculars. In terms of
    optics, there's very little to choose between their
    200$ (or wait until they go on sale for 100$) binoculars
    and their 500$ (or more) Japanese or German cousins.
    Good glass, well ground, with good coatings. Just don't
    drop them. While no pair of binoculars likes shocks,
    West Marine binos are more fragile than most.
    But mine are now 15 years old and have been bumped a
    fair bit over the years with out problems. But they're the
    7x50's so not what you are asking for.
    
    So maybe these guys:
    https://www.westmarine.com/buy/west-marine--shoreline-8-x-42-waterproof-binoculars--16730525?recordNum=7
    They go on sale half-price as loss-leaders on a regular basis.
    
    But I haven't looked through them, so I can't say for sure.
    
    SG
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