winton wrote:Just throwing this into the mix: monos give you less field of view.
Wasn't aware of that, so thanks for the tip.
winton wrote:Error Mason in his book recommends a 15x swaro bino as the replacement for a spotting scopes. Its too much money for my budget, but he seems to swear by it.
Assume we're talking about the SLC 15x56 here?
As it happens, my father has a pair of the previous SL in 7x50, they are simply excellent. I've used them to look across the valley where my folks live to the houses on the other side which is ~1150m according to Google Maps, and honestly, you could count the number of fingers someone was holding up on the other side, they're that clear.
Even with only 7x magnification you can make out so much detail at that kind of distance due to the quality/clarity.
He never uses them and I've thought about pinching them
they're just bigger than I'd ideally like.
I've no doubt the 15x are amazing, but yeah, spending $2,300 for a pair of binos is not on the cards for me at all.