Allright, experts and non-experts,
First about Nikon. I am not going to buy Nikon because of what I've learnt about their marketing practices. Ron from
Sirius Optics tells me that Nikon's Australian representative sells to small dealers at highly inflated prices. He pays more for the Nikon binos wholesale than big stores like Ted's ask for them retail.
Now, I absolutely cannot spend more than $300 and what I really wanted to know is:
1. Is there much of a difference in quality between the top of the range binos from Olympus, Minolta and Pentax?
2. Is there much difference between these brand name binos (between $200-$250) and one of the better noname binos from Andrews or AOE (between $120-$150)?
I might go to the city sometime this week and have a look at what they have in some of the bigger camera shops.