Mick's bins. Revisited.

Yeah, I'm back from a month or so in Peru, and I dragged the 8x32BN bins around with me. I *love* these bins - bright, not too heavy, very rugged and easy to use with glasses. They were invaluable for spotting birds and wildlife in the Amazon rainforest - a memory that will remain with me for life is watching a wild (and fairly rare) pygmy marmoset monkey watching me; but for the bins it would have been a tiny, easily missable blob. The Leicas pulled the detail in the shadows and in one instant the cost of these bins was entirely justified.

Like with a camera, quality counts - you generally don't get a second chance for things like this and lesser bins might just not have done... so, if you're likely to be going anywhere where bins are worth taking, it's worth taking a good pair...

John

I am a year more experienced with bins too. I bought the Swaro EL8x32, and while I love the portability and clarity, the exit pupil diameter is only just suffient for me, and I now would go for 8x40s, despite extra weight. I obviously have quite big pupils on British overcast days. The exit pupil (objective power divided by eyepiece power)on a pair of 8x25s would have been far too small for me to use in this country.