State of the art
To really understand Peterson, Sibley, and other field-guide artists, take a look through their binoculars
Contributed by Pete Dunne
Published:
February 20, 2009
Contributing Editor Pete Dunne describes the Lemaire 8x24 binocular used by Roger Tory Peterson when he prepared his groundbreaking book A Field Guide to the Birds, the Bausch and Lomb 7x35 Zephyr popular in postwar America, the Zeiss 10x40 used by Jon Dunn and Eirik Blom, authors of National Geographic's Field Guide to the Birds of North America, and the Zeiss 7x42 used by David Allen Sibley when he prepared The Sibley Guide to Birds and explains how the history of birding is no more or less than the history of optics.
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