Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 21:47:28 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Re: RFI: need info on economical binoculars In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 1/9/01 6:07 PM, Marshall Iliff at Miliff@AOL.COM wrote: > I find myself in a small dilemma and am hoping some MDOspreyers out there can > help me. I have a friend who is a budding birder and is looking to buy his > first binoculars and is hoping for something in the $200 range. I'm not much > of a "gear" person and usually gloss over the product reviews in Birding and > other magazines. Unfortunately, while I can give a long and tiring sermon on > the comparative merits of Zeiss vs. Bausch & Lomb vs. Swarovski, these are > all well out of his price range. My sister, a non-birder, bought a pair of Swift Ultra Lites for about that price. She is very pleased with them. She had a pair of Birders for a very short time-lost them when a canoe overturned in Belize. She likes the Swifts much better. Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================