Hello everyone,
I'm very much struggling to find a really comfortable pair of 10x42 binoculars to use as my go to everyday bins and would really appreciate any help and some suggestions from anyone who is a glasses wearer and has found themselves some 10x42's which are super comfortable to use, have great optics and are just right for them. Anyone with experience of selling binoculars to glasses wearers too, who might see a trend towards a particular brand or, even better, a specific model.
I appear to be complicating matters by trying to find a pair with good optics which I can instantly/easily achieve perfect positioning and comfort with both of the pairs of glasses I wear regularly.
I haven't been able to test any binoculars extensively, only in the street outside the two good optics shops located within a reasonable distance of where I live (30 mins drive approx).
So far, the only 10x42 binoculars I've found which are truly comfortable and easy to use with both pairs of glasses are the now discontinued Nikon Monarch 7's. But, whilst I found them exceptionally easy to use, I took to them immediately, I wasn't 'wow'd' by the optics (not even an 'oooh'). On that basis, I wouldn't buy them.
The nearest I've come to finding an instrument which works with both of my pairs of glasses and which impressed me optically was the Hawke Frontier APO, but whilst I could usually find positioning which worked, I felt it was all a bit hit and miss for me.
Of all the 10x42 binoculars I've tested my biggest 'wow' was with the Opticron Aurora, but whilst they were comfortable and easy to use with one of my pairs of glasses, they were impossible to position easily with the other pair.
I would like to try the Kite Lynx HD+ and GPO Passion HD (although I suspect the eye relief of the latter may make it a non-starter), but I have no retailer for these brands anywhere near me.
I hadn't originally intended to buy a pair of 'alpha' binoculars, but if I do find that a Leica, Zeiss or Swarovski instrument is super comfortable to use with both of my pairs of glasses, I will happily invest in them. (I recently purchased and returned a pair of 10x32 EL's, because I just couldn't position them easily. This was mainly, I believe, due to the smaller than I am used to exit pupil, so I've abandoned looking at x32's).
Any thoughts or recommendations would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
I'm very much struggling to find a really comfortable pair of 10x42 binoculars to use as my go to everyday bins and would really appreciate any help and some suggestions from anyone who is a glasses wearer and has found themselves some 10x42's which are super comfortable to use, have great optics and are just right for them. Anyone with experience of selling binoculars to glasses wearers too, who might see a trend towards a particular brand or, even better, a specific model.
I appear to be complicating matters by trying to find a pair with good optics which I can instantly/easily achieve perfect positioning and comfort with both of the pairs of glasses I wear regularly.
I haven't been able to test any binoculars extensively, only in the street outside the two good optics shops located within a reasonable distance of where I live (30 mins drive approx).
So far, the only 10x42 binoculars I've found which are truly comfortable and easy to use with both pairs of glasses are the now discontinued Nikon Monarch 7's. But, whilst I found them exceptionally easy to use, I took to them immediately, I wasn't 'wow'd' by the optics (not even an 'oooh'). On that basis, I wouldn't buy them.
The nearest I've come to finding an instrument which works with both of my pairs of glasses and which impressed me optically was the Hawke Frontier APO, but whilst I could usually find positioning which worked, I felt it was all a bit hit and miss for me.
Of all the 10x42 binoculars I've tested my biggest 'wow' was with the Opticron Aurora, but whilst they were comfortable and easy to use with one of my pairs of glasses, they were impossible to position easily with the other pair.
I would like to try the Kite Lynx HD+ and GPO Passion HD (although I suspect the eye relief of the latter may make it a non-starter), but I have no retailer for these brands anywhere near me.
I hadn't originally intended to buy a pair of 'alpha' binoculars, but if I do find that a Leica, Zeiss or Swarovski instrument is super comfortable to use with both of my pairs of glasses, I will happily invest in them. (I recently purchased and returned a pair of 10x32 EL's, because I just couldn't position them easily. This was mainly, I believe, due to the smaller than I am used to exit pupil, so I've abandoned looking at x32's).
Any thoughts or recommendations would be very much appreciated. Thank you!