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Ah, yes... optics...

I would hope that you'd back me up on my Fujinon fetish. Sure, I'd like to have Swarovski or Zeiss, but I can't afford it. But in my mind, Fujinon is right up there with Nikon or maybe a little better.

The guy at Captain's Nautical (name is Bill Hall) is the same guy I used to deal with back when I was a Coastie. A couple of times I brought all of the binocs from the cutter all the way from Oregon up to Captain's to have Bill Hall work his magic on them. It takes special facilities to re-align the optics and then nitrogen-fill and re-seal them. Some of our older 10x50 binocs were WW2 vintage, but he did a wonderful job on them. They're probably still in service.

The guy is a craftsman, and I'm sure he's forgotten more about optics than I will ever know. So... I was an easy sell. I also got a new set of 10x50's today. I wanted to spend a little more but he pointed me to a set of Minolta (of all things) that were brighter and clearer than others that were two or three times the price. I'm not one to argue with an expert. :-)

I would hope that you'd back me up on my Fujinon fetish.

Fujinon, sure. I'm trying to track down the Fujinon the military has adopted as the M-24. It's a compact model that replaces the big Steiner M-22s. But I want the genuine GI model with NSN and the killflash filters.