I wanted to discover the mystery why so many good reviews for that Occer and also I thought that I would get a bargain, something to throw in car’s glove box and don’t worry if losing them or get stolen.
Finally today after testing them outside I found the secret why they have so many positive reviews and I am prepared to raise their rating from 1 star junk to 3 or 4 stars (as for disposable cheap for car glove box binoculars).
I didn’t test them outside until now because I seen that are mis-collimated vertically and horizontally so I thought it doesn’t make sense to test such mis-colimated binocs.
What I discovered even mis-collimated horizontally and vertically my eyes adapted easily and I get overlap of the with almost no effort.
The image was more natural than looking through a pair of roofs.
It fits easily in a pocket.
It fits easy in the hand.
It can be operated with a single hand without shaking (they pretended magnification is 12 x but in reality is 7x or 6.5.
Have large oculars. Because of large oculars you cannot get then very close to the eyes, don’t se all field of view, which is good only in the middle anyway, because viewing all the field of view might be a turn-off.
At fist I said how I could follow the birds in flight with such a small field of view, but it proved to be easy, I can’t explain why (maybe lower magnification).
Sometimes the image so beautiful sometimes is not because chromatic aberrations show up. But here the chromatic aberrations are not so disturbing like in a roof. Here you see a lot of details even when chromatic aberrations show up, at some roofs those make impossible to see the details. At here you see a lot of details when are not chromatic aberrations but see also details even when they show up. I was amazed how much detail I have seen sometimes compared with other binoculars.
There are another kind of chromatic aberrations that don’t block the user so much in seeing the details.
Was easy to follow birds flying and see details about them even with the small field of view (which previously I thought might be impossible).
I have seen a birds flying and seen a lot of details, after that the bird passed to an area of the sky where it appeared chromatic aberrations, but after 3 second went to an area of the sky where is disappeared. Chromatic aberrations are not constant they show up and they disappear, even when they appear one can see some of details, the small fov doesn’t make hard to follow the birds during flight.
For example with my Svbony was hard to follow the birds during flight even with that large field of view ( maybe because more heavy, higher magnification, plus that horizontal collimation problem, plus contours around the birds on the sky because some CA).
This one have plenty of chromatic aberrations but are not that annoying like ones from roofs. I have seen on the beach a portion of the sand that looked totally normal after that a small portion of sand with chromatic aberrations, imagine rainbow collars on the sand, and the rest of the sand looked totally well. And when not and area where the chromatic aberrations show up the image was good in the center (I could see only the center anyway because the large eyecups).
Handling is easy because low weight, pocketable size, almost no shake (6 or 7 magnification, one hand holding very easy, following birds was easy with small fov (can’t explain why), adapting to mis-collimated horizontally and vertically was easy (also can’t explain why).
They have a ton of chromatic aberrations even in the sand, but are not such a turn off because one is able to see fine details even then.
I checked again the vertical collimation by looking to a bridge and to a power line. After focusing though them and moving the binocs from the eyes I have seen the right side of the bridge and power line way lower that the left side. So I am 100% are mis-collimated vertically. The horizontal miscollimation i seen through the window of my apartment after checking with another 3 pairs of binoculars (smaller and larger) and not seeing the same problem when looking though all 3 of them.
That’s why is that rating, some people that didn’t tested too many binoculars during their life might say that are amazing even with both horizontal and vertical mis-collimation.
I felt sorry that I did not buy a 7x reverse porro while they were selling good brands of reverse porro in stores.
