Vixen North America holiday sale (1 Viewer)

Check it out:

http://vixenamerica.com/StartPage/

For anyone who doesn't wanto shell out $200+ for a high-end zoom, and was considering a Vixen LV 8-24mm zoom, they are on sale brand-new from Vixen for $128. That's about what they go for used on eBay.

New Birding Page

The sale at Vixen North America continues as a new birding entry page has gone up on the site:
http://vixenamerica.com/Birding

The best prices yet on waterproof birding binocs and spotters.

eitanaltman said:

Check it out:

http://vixenamerica.com/StartPage/

For anyone who doesn't wanto shell out $200+ for a high-end zoom, and was considering a Vixen LV 8-24mm zoom, they are on sale brand-new from Vixen for $128. That's about what they go for used on eBay.

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BirdScope said:

The sale at Vixen North America continues as a new birding entry page has gone up on the site:
http://vixenamerica.com/Birding

The best prices yet on waterproof birding binocs and spotters.

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I've often wondered about these mid quality optics. Many different companies use the same manufacturer.

Vixen are at the cheap end of the quality optics market in Japan. They seem to be the classic generic "made in Japan" gear seemingly available under different brand names in different countries (and with wildly varying prices-look at how expensive Opticron in the UK is compared to Vixen in the US).

How different/similar/identical they are to Opticron/Celestron/Bushnell etc we'll never know until someone gets all the different models and compares them, maybe swapping eyepieces to see if they ARE the same. And who is going to bother doing that?

Vixen's outlet website in Japan advertises Bausch & Lomb binoculars for example. And the 52mm Vixen Scope looks identical to Opticron's MM2. Which looks identical to the Bushnell 52mm one.

The US prices on that link seem roughly on par with Japanese prices for Vixen. I keep meaning to get that LV zoom for my Pentax Scope but for some reason keep soldiering on with my e-bay clone.