Hi,
I'm looking into getting my wife some binoculars as a present. My budget is £100ish, but this is somewhat flexible. She will probably want something as compact as possible, but having looked into it, it seems that 8x30/32 provides a substantial step up in quality from 8x25, so I hope this will be an acceptable compromise for her.
I've just spent a bit of time trawling the forum, and some recommendations I've found (all of which push the budget a bit) are:
Hawke Frontier ED 8x32 (£135)
Nikon Prostaff 7S 8x30 (£149)
Opticron Discovery 8x32 WP PC (£149)
Pentax AD 8x25 WP (£109)
Bushnell Natureview 8x32 (£110)
I can see that these brands have cheaper models (opticron oregon 4, bushnell powerview, etc.) but I don't really know how different they'd be in use..
Any thoughts or recommendations much appreciated.
Cheers!
I'm looking into getting my wife some binoculars as a present. My budget is £100ish, but this is somewhat flexible. She will probably want something as compact as possible, but having looked into it, it seems that 8x30/32 provides a substantial step up in quality from 8x25, so I hope this will be an acceptable compromise for her.
I've just spent a bit of time trawling the forum, and some recommendations I've found (all of which push the budget a bit) are:
Hawke Frontier ED 8x32 (£135)
Nikon Prostaff 7S 8x30 (£149)
Opticron Discovery 8x32 WP PC (£149)
Pentax AD 8x25 WP (£109)
Bushnell Natureview 8x32 (£110)
I can see that these brands have cheaper models (opticron oregon 4, bushnell powerview, etc.) but I don't really know how different they'd be in use..
Any thoughts or recommendations much appreciated.
Cheers!