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[Big Kev]

About two years ago I bought myself a pair Minox HG 10x52 bino's, before purchasing them I had a £1500 pair of Swaro's borrowed off a freind who had given up stalking. After using the Swaro's then trying out the Minox in the shop they seemed every bit as good and at £730 for German bino's with a 30 year warranty, a bargain.
I was ok with them at first but over the past year or so I'm finding it more difficult to hold a steady image, even off the sticks, my freind an AW tells me its because my glimmers are starting to deterate and that I should be coming down to an 8x magnification.
Can anyone out there throw some light on this subject, is he right do I need to downsize, could there be a nice pair of bino's for sale ?.

 

[caorach]

At the risk of stating the obvious - if you can't hold them steady then coming down in magnification will help and as you've stated that you can't hold them steady it is a sort of "self answering question." It would be well worth giving a set of 8 magnification binos a try to see if they are any better. As we get older we are all less steady and I guess if you can't get a decent view from the 8X binos then it might be worth talking with the doc. Also some medication can make you less steady, i have an inhaler which causes a very slight shake for example.