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Message: <blockquote data-quote="henry link" data-source="post: 3212619" data-attributes="member: 6806">My experiences are with the original and current Yosemite 8x30, the Eagle optics 8.5x32 clone of the current Yosemite, the old Celestron 8x30 (really 7x30) Nature and the Barska 8x30 (really 7x30) Crossover. IMO the original Yosemite was the best made of the lot and was clearly a different binocular from the current one. The Eagle optics clone appears to be essentially the same binocular from the same factory as the current Yosemite. The Barska and Celestrons, while designed to look similar to the current Yosemite, are different enough in their details to indicate a different maker. I wouldn't expect QC to be great in any of these, but I think there is a lower risk of the kinds of defects, like wobbly eyepiece bridges or poor collimation, that render a binocular unusable in the slightly more expensive Yosemite clones. All three of the Barska/Celestrons I tried were defective to the point of being useless. I just couldn't recommend them to anyone looking for an entry level binocular after that experience.</blockquote>