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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HJC1972" data-source="post: 3258442" data-attributes="member: 118663">Nikon Aculon 8x42 vs Olympus DPSI 8x40 vs Olympus DPSI 8-16x40 zoom.Strong first post I know,but I was hoping for a little help choosing between the above.First off though, a quick intro: I'm a keen angler and river walker based in Bedfordshire. I've had some cheap and nasty bins for a while now but would like to step up a little to something at least half decent for walking the river and a bit of nature observation. I'm on a limited budget, as you can probably tell and I've narrowed my search down to the three listed above by just reading online reviews of the likes of Amazon. I should state that I'm under no illusions and fully ralise that I'm still in cheap and cheerful territory with these bins but they should, hopefully, be far better than the crappy Bressers I've been using for the past few months. Anyhow, of the above three I was just looking for a more informed decision between the Nikons and the Olympus? I've put in the zoom pair as well as I'm undecided wether to get x8 or x10 and the zoom pair would obviously give me both options. A question I do have regarding these though: assuming I only use the zoom pair on x8, is the image quality likely to be any different from the other two pairs? I do know that the higher magnification results in a loss of quality but he way I'm seeing it, if the 8x is the same as or even only slightly less quality than the other twos fixed magnification then it might be worth getting the zoom pair just to have the option of a (reduced quality) higher magnification, should I want it.Or at this price point am I just over thinking all this?</blockquote>

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