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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
New verse:
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I have unusable boxes from when I moved in plus a few items of furniture that are junk. Also scrap wood from the paneling that was in this room.
Ah. I was imagining piles and piles of magazines and old rags and wondering who exactly I was getting as a roommate...
Well...there are magazines too...but no gasoline involved or anything.
I think it all depends on the price range of the optics. Even the Leupold economy line is "outsourced".
I don't like the red chinese bit myself, but I see my buying their stuff (when nothing else is available) as helping a tiny bit of capitalism to someday undermine their commie masters. Buying stuff at WallyWorld harms us a lot less than an ex-president who gave away our nuclear secrets, and supercomputers, and aircraft tooling, to the chicoms in exchange for a few million (mabye even 100 million) in dirty money laundered through through the Rat party,
Minox 8x32BR compact, armored, and built like a little panzer, street price $550:
That's interesting... I'm quite familiar with Minox er... equipment. High quality and very handy. [I was the ships intel photographer, went to photo intel school... nudge nudge, wink wink... OK... it wasn't any James Bond stuff, but we did get to play with some pretty fun toys] :-)
I mostly agree with your take on chinese stuff.
Something I *have* noticed about binoculars is that it it getting harder and harder to find 10x50's. Seems everybody likes the smaller ones (duh, cuz they're better to carry around) but for folks like me that want binos for the boat, or to set on the table on the deck, the 10x50 is just about the perfect size.
That's when I got turned on to that little set of Minoltas. Bill over at Captain's Nautical is somebody that really knows optics, like one of three such technicians on the west coast... and he was really high on them. They're a 12.5x50, but are still really light and compact, and super clear glass, and really little distortion.
Great for checking up on our horses out in the pasture.
One question though... what do the 12x50 numbers refer to? Angle of view, magnification power, etc?
Just catching up.
Is this guy "Nirvana/Pearl Jam" sort of Unix, or is he "Grateful Dead" sort of Unix?
It matters... :-)
Evenin'!
Hey there, ecurbh!
How goes it in the frosty northwest?
Glad you like 'em. :-)
The numbers on binos are "magnification x objective lens diameter"
So... 12 means that the object appears to be 1/12th the distance away (or 12 times closer). 50 is the diameter (mm) of the objective lens (the big last lens at the end). The bigger the objective lens the more light they pick up, making the object brighter.
10x50 is the standard issue bino for the Navy/CG.
The big binos I have at the beach are 16x80 for the Fujis and 20x80 for the Celestrons.
Howdy your Ruthmeisterness... :-)
Hi Ramius!
Still got the Mustang on hiatus, I presume. ;-D
BBL... Time for Jeopardy!
Hi all,
300winmag is sending more knives to my friend. He was promoted last week, and now has reports. So, I have asked for more of the hobbit hole knives to be sent for them. Just wanted to let you all know that he loves these knives and looks forward to being able to pass them out.
Thank you all for all you do for troop support. It truly makes them feel special.
See ya later!
I'm not here for long. Gotta get some sleep or I'll be completely useless tomorrow.
Honored. :-) Please pass on our thanks to your friend for everything they do. :-)
Yah... still got the Cherokee. There's talk of snow maybe tomorrow but certainly by Wednesday. We'll see... they always get it wrong.
It's us who can't thank them enough!
I think it's safe to speak for for all of us when I say that it's the least we can do. ;-D
Be sure to tell your friend how proud we are and how we pray for their safe return.
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