"Florian" wrote in message ...
Hi Leonard,

The Leica 10x32mm Trinovid BN are listed with a close focus of 7 feet.
Mine seem like they focus even closer than that. And i do often use them
as you mentioned as a sort of long range microscope to watch insects
or study desert plants. They are my most used daytime binocular. But
they aren't cheap. I got mine from Astronomics...

http://astronomics.com/main/product.asp/catalog name/Christophers/categor
y name/F2TL45738SSL8MRJWD230DPSU0/product id/L1032N

-Florian

Don't you get a sense of being cross-eyed? Binoculars are either
optically aligned parallel for infinity or pointing inwards for closer
use. Aren't they?
Perhaps a small pair of roof prisms doesn't suffer from parallax
effects like the porro prism jobbies with their widely spaced
objectives? :-)

Regards
Chris.B