Dennis, It depends what your purpose is. It’s great for recording bird sightings or when you are not sure of the identification. The so-so image quality means it’s not a replacement for a proper camera with telephoto lens. It’s a little bit like my smartphone, I only use it to capture price tags or flyers in stores, or scan documents I don’t need to archive permanently, but for any serious photography I have a Ricoh GRIII in my jacket pocket or a Nikon in my backpack.
AF is good for the most part, but BIF are hit-or-miss (it’s got center-point AF and eye-detection but I haven’t tried the latter). The digital zoom will fill the EVF frame, but it’s not an immersive experience and I don’t plan on replacing my Zeiss Victory Pocket 8x25 as my EDC binoculars. In this respetc it’s like the Swarovski dG, without the Merlin integration, and from the samples I’ve seen image quality is similar.
The bird shots were about 30m away for the magpie and about 15 for the pigeons.
