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Out with the old in with the new: optics expert Pete Dunne describes how to tell if you are living with the wrong binocular.
The woman was petite. Standing among the other members of her birding tour group, she looked like a child in the company of adults. But what made her really stand out was the brand-new and very expensive Zeiss Night Owl 10x56 binocular hanging around her neck. It was so incongruously large that she resembled a binocular with arms and legs.
Without asking, I knew exactly how the mismatch occurred. She was a new birder. She needed binoculars. She went online or looked at an ad for some mail-order house. Then she ordered the most expensive binocular she could find, assuming, as consumers the world over do, that throwing more money at a problem would compensate for a ...
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