Every birder wants the best optics possible. But what that means often depends on circumstance. I love my Swarovski EL 8x32s deeply, but sometimes...
It is not every day that a birder gets to play with a prototype scope made by one of the premiere optics companies in...
I’ve already written about trying my hand at iScoping through my binoculars using the Meopta MeoPix iScoping adapter and, since then, I have spent...
Do you grow tired of lugging a camera into the field on the off chance you’ll see something you need to document? Have you...
I have a really great spotting scope, an angled Swarovski 80mm HD scope with a 20 – 60 zoom eyepiece (and sometimes I alternate...
Why would Swarovski Optik decide to completely revamp their classic EL line of binoculars? Birders all over the world can be forgiven for asking...
I’ve been conferring recently with a friend who runs an eco-lodge about the prospect of upgrading the onsite optics array; in essence, she’s looking...
At the beginning of June, we took on a new advertiser, a company I’d never heard of before. Looking into this site, I learned...
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