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["Wim Vader" <>]

At 01:04 25.01.2005, you wrote:
> There is quite a good commentary on choosing binoculars in "The Complete
> Birder" by Jack Connor.  He quotes a comment by a binocular repairman (from
> somewhere in the US) as follows: "Ninety five percent of the binoculars I
> get in here look like they've been dragged through moose manure.  How can
> people expect brightness and clarity when they never bother to clean the
> damn lenses?"
>
> Martin
> ----
        Strange comment, this! Not that most birders' fieldglasses are not
filthy. But moose-manure is not! it consist of perfectly shaped oval dry
'balls', so regular in form, that some creative people even have thought
about  exporting tham as souvenirs! Dragging your binoculars through a pile
of these would not make them any filthier.

                                                                        Wim
Vader, Tromsø Museum
                                                                        9037
Tromsø, Norway
                                                                        



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