Snow, You are right that the MONARCH 5's are very nice. I would make the suggestion that you check out the MONARCH 7's too. Yes, they are $150, more then the MONARCH 5's but from the independant reviews I have read and the folk's I have spoken to, they are worth it. The MONARCH 5's repeatedly are ranked with bino's costing 3 and 4 times as much. I demo'd a pair of 6 months and loved em, bought em and retired my Euro. bino's. I do some freelance PR work for Nikon and believe me, if what they had didn't do what it is supposed to do I wouldn't tell you it did.
