A good friend is treating me to an
opera this coming weekend. My part of the deal is to supply the optics. He asked about
opera glasses and I assured him that, no, we would not be using opera glasses, simply because no opera glass made measures up to my very fussy optical standards and, also, because our tickets are up in the nosebleed section. So what will we be using? I will outfit him with a
Zeiss 8x20 Victory compact binocular. I will, as always, be wearing my
Swarovski Crystal Pocket binocular and will be spending the rest of the week considering a wardrobe to match. To be sure, both the
Zeiss and
Swarovski name will be right at home at a class event like an opera.