Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:26:21 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mark James Subject: Re: New Audubon Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 On Fri, 30 November 2001, Rick Sussman wrote: Thank you Rick Unfortunately, I should have read your message earlier, because I went out this morning to a Wild Bird Center and bought one. I know 100% what you mean about the 'badly designed pop-up eye cups'. BADLY! But, the optics are excellent, once everything is set right. If they were not that good, I might consider trying to return them. Thank you very much. Mark > > Mark, > I have the new improved Swift Audubon's, and have been using them since last > Feb. I have the non-ED model, and they are indeed as good as you've read. The > only weak pount is the rather badly designed pop-up eye cups, something I've > spoken to the reviewer at BVD about. He said that Swift was re-working the > design but I've not seen any changes. Optically, they are as good as the new > Swarovski 8.2x42 EL's. > I got mine form Simpson Optics, sponsers of BVD online. Call and talk to > Greg Simpson. > > Rick Sussman > 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 > ======================================================================= Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================