anyone try the Canon 10x42 L IS WP binoculars?

Let me translate the alphabet soup: WP means weather (or water?)
proof, IS means image stabilized, and L means Canon's L-series lenses
for the objectives. These lenses apparently contain ED elements, and
supposedly reduce chromatic aberration.

Anyone try them out yet on a bright glint to see if it really does
help?

Brian Tung
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On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 13:47:02 -0500, Brian Tung wrote
(in article ):

Let me translate the alphabet soup: WP means weather (or water?)
proof, IS means image stabilized, and L means Canon's L-series lenses
for the objectives. These lenses apparently contain ED elements, and
supposedly reduce chromatic aberration.

Anyone try them out yet on a bright glint to see if it really does
help?

Brian Tung
The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/
Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/
The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/
My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt

There have been several extremely positive reports on the Cloudy Nights
Binocular forum. Optics are first rate; IS works very well. The main
complaint is that they are a tad heavy for their size.