BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="henry link" data-source="post: 3212234" data-attributes="member: 6806">Some of these same binoculars were discussed on this thread about five years ago.<a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=177768&highlight=Celestron+Nature" target="_blank">http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=177768&highlight=Celestron+Nature</a>My experiences with the Celestron Nature 8x30 (almost certainly the same binocular as the relabeled Cypress 7x30) start with post #38. Everything I said about that binocular applies to the largely identical Barska Crossover (still incorrectly labeled as an 8x30) except that the Barska is less bright because it's not fully multi-coated. In my opinion none of these cheaper imitations of the Yosemite are made well enough to be recommendable. The three samples I've tried (one Celestron and two Barskas) were all poorly collimated right out of the box or blister wrap and could not hold a diopter adjustment or collimation due to squishy, wobbly eyepiece bridges. My impression is that when you go from the Leupold/Kowa/Vortex/Eagle clones to the Celestron/Barska  imitations a threshold is crossed between pretty decent inexpensive binoculars worth the price to flimsy toys that are likely to be a waste of money.</blockquote>