I've used these 6x32 outside a few times now and would add the following, but remembering they cost £215.
The hinge could do with being a little stiffer, it moves too easily, especially if you are keeping them in your pocket.
I'll reiterate that the pull-out ocular is plasticky, and the dioptre adjusment has a cheap indistinct feel. Of course you don't need to keep moving these parts, the binocular is so small you can leave them ready for use. The view is pleasant enough.
The most difficult thing for me is getting a consistantly comfortable eye position. This despite the 5mm plus exit pupil.
Best position for me, and I don't wear glasses, is under but touching my eyebrow quite far from my eye, rather than snugly further into my eye-socket. This unfortunately allows for more movement of the binocular, and in the field makes the correct eye point more difficult to maintain, with some annoying minor edge-blackouts. I may learn to instinctively hold the correct point.
However there is a considerable gap around the ocular for side-sunlight to interfere with use. Which means on a sunny day like today, I need to use one hand to shield my eye on the sunny side while the other hand focuses, swapping as necessary. This I did not like. Maybe it's just my facial characteristics that make them trickier to use, but caveat emptor. These really need fold up eyeguards like the Steiner XP/Discovery.
I'm keeping them as they'll be a nice glove-box binocular for occasional use. Meanwhile, fingers crossed, looking forward to Opticron producing a 6x ED, twist up ocular version, with better build and fitting for me.
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