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Binoculars of Note
From Bird Watcher's Digest, November, 2007
Midpriced Binocular Round Up
by Michael and Diane Porter
These are among the binoculars of note from the 2007 Midpriced Binoculars Round Up.
Leupold Katmai
 The Leupold Katmai 6x32 is a little gem. It has a wonderful build quality, and it fits a large range of hand sizes. Everybody loved it. It's a cargo-pocket or purse-sized binocular, very compact for its 32mm objectives. It's got that big-picture effect, combining both long eye relief (18.2mm) and a wide (425 ft.) field-of-view. It got very high ratings (4.5) for optical quality.
If you push the twist-click eyecups in slightly when extended, they lock, to preserve the setting. A nice touch. The Katmai 6x32 focuses as close as 4.9 ft., and you can push the barrels close enough together to make the images overlap even at that distance.
It got an overall score of 4.4, putting it alongside much more expensive binoculars. The street price is a modest $320, making it clearly a best buy candidate. The Leupold Katmai is also available in 8x32 and 10x32 versions.
Other Binoculars of Note
INTRODUCTION
THE MAIN CHART
THE WARRANTIES CHART
 This article appears as part of the Midpriced Binoculars Round Up in the November, 2007, issue of Bird Watcher's Digest.
Text and photos copyright 2007 by Michael and Diane Porter.
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