Anyone tried B&L 10x24 Legacy Compacts? (1 Viewer)

I'm still looking for a lightweight pair of bins to complete my lightweight field kit. Has anyone any experience of these - good and bad?

Steve

How lightweight? A weight range would be helpful.

Sub-400g as a guide

I have bought one three weeks ago and used heavily in Danube Delta. My choice was good, i guess, as i carry with me also video and photocam.

callatis said:

I have bought one three weeks ago and used heavily in Danube Delta. My choice was good, i guess, as i carry with me also video and photocam.

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Let me guess: Milvus Group?

Quacker said:

I'm still looking for a lightweight pair of bins to complete my lightweight field kit. Has anyone any experience of these - good and bad?

Steve

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I've just got a pair of Bushnell Legacy 8x24s from a seller on ebay for £19.11 (big smug grin).

I've been looking for a pair for a while after testing a few different sorts at an optics shop. I really liked the image clarity, compact design (although not small enough for a shirt pocket) and the fact that I can focus on infinity without my glasses (I'm -7 diopters short-sighted). The eye-relief is fine to use with glasses, but it's more comforable sometimes to take the specs off when birding from a hide.

I usually use (enormous) Swift Audubons (Mk1 version) that constantly clonk my 3 year-old son on the head when I pick him up, so I'm sure he will appreciate the smaller/lighter/rubber armoured Bushnells!

I went out to compare the Bushnells with the Swifts the other day and found little difference in normal daylight (save for an approximately 20% smaller field of view with the Bushnells). At dusk, obviously, the Swifts were better than the Bushnells, but I have to say the difference was not as much as I had feared.

I'd say go for the 8x24s for a good brightness/FOV compromise. I switched from 10x to 8.5x a few years ago and hardly noticed the difference.

Sorry for the rambling reply!!

Mike