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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binastro" data-source="post: 3141007" data-attributes="member: 111403">. Hi David,A happy New Year to you and everybody else.Although I say that the improvements in resolution with the 8×25 is 50% to 70% with the stabiliser on, this is not the whole story.Although with a good and much larger 12 times or 13 times binocular I can equal the resolution handheld, this is for short periods of time.With the 8×25 the 50% to 70% improvement is all the time that the stabiliser is on.So in actual use I would say that the resolution of detail even for a static target is almost 100% and for a moving target such as an aircraft certainly 100%.The proof of the pudding is in the eating and I was very surprised to see the aircraft carrier's name on the side of the aircraft extremely easily with the stabiliser on and quite unreadable with the stabiliser off.The last 8×25 I tried a few years ago from memory was not as good as this one but it may have had a different stabiliser system.I don't know why you don't get better results from the Canon stabilised binoculars.At night with the 18×50 looking at an aircraft several miles away each window is easily seen and even the shape of the window. I would say that the improvement in resolution is two times the three times better with the stabiliser on.I've been using Canon stabilised binoculars for about 15 years and I have briefly tried many others including the most peculiar Russian one that took more than a minute for the gyro to speed up before sending itself up into orbit. And it is also very noisy. It is military, so quite daft. Although it is so bulky it would stop a bullet.However, many standard non-stabilised binoculars give much brighter images than the Canon stabilised and standard binoculars are probably much better for birdwatchers although some birdwatchers seem to like the Canon 10×42 L I S.As far as I'm concerned stabilised binoculars should be the norm with affordable lowlight level electronic binoculars of high capability next.Also for me I would think that any of the Canon stabilised binoculars even the 8×25 can probably equal the resolution of any handheld standard binocular.However, if you mount the standard binocular on a tripod that is quite a different story but I hate tripods for binoculars.The previous 8×25 Canon image stabilised binocular had the front optical window fall off. It is only held on with a thin plastic front retainer and unfortunately my hands are not good enough to sand it down and glue it back on so it has not yet been repaired.It works without the optical window but of course this is not correct. But it gave about five years very good use for watching cricket matches etc. It was not actually properly attached even when new. And it had hard use before the optical window detached itself.</blockquote>

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