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They say you must accept age gracefully; and with 51 literally just around the corner, I’ve come to accept that my grip on the ol’ tube isn’t what it used to be.
I think I’ve got to switch things up, and go to a binocular.
I have a lovely, bolshy great pair of 1970s Bushnell 10X50s – all metal and glass, big lenses on both ends and weighs about a million pounds. I’m hoping the past 40 years have been good for something, and I can find something as comfy on the peepers at half the size and a quarter of the weight.
My last attempt was abortive – a pair of those Walmart fold-up spyguy binoculars – but the exit pupil is ridiculously small, and the image is dim. I’ve been eyeing up something called the Pentax Papillo, because of it’s extreme versatility in macro focus, but I’m open to suggestions.
I need light, small, reasonably priced, and reasonably bright. Nothing over 7X is necessary, and nothing over 10X would be wanted. Whatcha got, folks?
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