pete_gamby
Birds? What Birds?!
Just another follow to the Countryman BGA HD competition we ran. To answer the question:
"Besides price, what are the three most important things you consider when purchasing a binocular?"
We got somewhere north of 75 respondents and of those I managed to identify 220 "answers". I've collated the results as below. Please note that I have not assumed that the top three answers were necessarily in order of importance i.e. each 'vote' has not been weighted. In addition, I have tried to reduce the number of different categories by assuming, for example, that "performance" and "image quality" could be considered broadly the same.
Ergonomics 17%
Performance 16%
Build quality/durability 12%
Weight 10%
Clarity 8%
Resolution/sharpness 8%
Warranty/reputation 6%
Good eye relief 6%
FOV 5%
Brightness/light transmission 3%
Focus system 3%
Configuration 2%
Waterproof 2%
Size 1%
Reviews 1%
CA control 1%
As I think at least one of the respondents mentioned, the issues of determining exactly what is meant by "performance" or "clarity" or "ergonomics" are subject for threads of their own (and these are things often discussed here anyway). The fact that these come high on the list is no real surprise!
What was interesting from my point of view was that build quality was specifically mentioned twice as much as warranty although I suppose one could infer that good build quality should be reflected by a good warranty offering.
Similarly weight was high on the list as a specific feature and above field of view, waterproofing etc. Perhaps we all expect a birding bino to be waterproof these days
More than 75% of the votes were in regard to physical or performance attributes of the binoculars with the other 25% or so relating to the less tangible or measurable features or service-related issues.
Thanks again to all that contributed.
We hope to be able to run another competition shortly - look out for a post from the admin team.
Cheers, Pete
"Besides price, what are the three most important things you consider when purchasing a binocular?"
We got somewhere north of 75 respondents and of those I managed to identify 220 "answers". I've collated the results as below. Please note that I have not assumed that the top three answers were necessarily in order of importance i.e. each 'vote' has not been weighted. In addition, I have tried to reduce the number of different categories by assuming, for example, that "performance" and "image quality" could be considered broadly the same.
Ergonomics 17%
Performance 16%
Build quality/durability 12%
Weight 10%
Clarity 8%
Resolution/sharpness 8%
Warranty/reputation 6%
Good eye relief 6%
FOV 5%
Brightness/light transmission 3%
Focus system 3%
Configuration 2%
Waterproof 2%
Size 1%
Reviews 1%
CA control 1%
As I think at least one of the respondents mentioned, the issues of determining exactly what is meant by "performance" or "clarity" or "ergonomics" are subject for threads of their own (and these are things often discussed here anyway). The fact that these come high on the list is no real surprise!
What was interesting from my point of view was that build quality was specifically mentioned twice as much as warranty although I suppose one could infer that good build quality should be reflected by a good warranty offering.
Similarly weight was high on the list as a specific feature and above field of view, waterproofing etc. Perhaps we all expect a birding bino to be waterproof these days
More than 75% of the votes were in regard to physical or performance attributes of the binoculars with the other 25% or so relating to the less tangible or measurable features or service-related issues.
Thanks again to all that contributed.
We hope to be able to run another competition shortly - look out for a post from the admin team.
Cheers, Pete