What Is A Good Pair Of Binoculars To Buy?
Monday, October 19th, 2009 at
9:21 pm
I would like to buy dh a pair of binoculars for Christmas, but I have no idea what's a good one. It's just for regular bird-watching type stuff, needs to be good quality but probably not more than $100. What kind of details do I need to be looking for? Thanks in advance!
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For bird watching keep it around 8 or 10 power. Under $100, look for porro prism type. Porro binos are those where the front lens(objective) is not in line with the rear(occular). The tubes are thus wider than roof binos, it’s not as sleek or as compact as roofs. But roofs are more complicated to build, they cost more, so any roof under $100 is missing a crucial element, phase correction. Without phase correction the images that a roof bino create will be on the blurry side.
Other things to look for are:
-prism type, BAK4 is better than BK7.
-Coating Fully Multi Coated > Multi Coated > Fully Coated.
-Waterproofing
Under $100 I’d look into something like the Bushnell Legend 8×26 or the Nikon Travellite.
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