Lidl £14.95 10x50 binculars.....review forthcoming...

[enfieldspares]

Just bought a pair today to keep in the car. I am not expecting them to be even near my sadly missed Leica 7x42BA but at £14.95 if lost, dropped, stolen or mislaid I won't cry that much. I'll give them a try over the next few days and report back my impressions.

 

[enfieldspares]

Tried briefly today at 5.30pm buildings some 900 to 1000 yards distant. Usual issues with any 10x binoculars....they magnify any "shake" imparted by the user....that they need to be held firmly and preferably with the user's elbows rested. First impressions are that they aren't at all bad for the price paid. Certainly not horrors and, so far, no feeling that I've wasted my money. I'll try at a future time when the light starts to fade.

 

[Klenchblaize]

I’m of the belief there is a lower limit freshold in how poorly you can manufacture and assemble a functioning product such as a set of bins. For the money and intended use I can’t see you being overly disappointed!

But keep us updated please.

K

 

[sauer]

They are selling 12v oil pumps at moment for £12.99....... handy for older Argo oil changes instead of trying to get to the sump plug

paul

 

[Klenchblaize]

They are selling 12v oil pumps at moment for £12.99....... handy for older Argo oil changes instead of trying to get to the sump plug

paul

I wondered what they were for!

K

 

[enfieldspares]

Just tried at 7.30pm on the same buildings at the same distance. N o problems with seeing objects that are of different colour to what is behind them but I think a brown deer against a brown field would be possibly not picked up. I'd be quite happy to use them knowing I'd paid £14.95 for them but I think there would be a difference between them and the top end stuff from Leica and Zeiss that I've owned. But that they'd hold their own against my later father's old British Army 7x50 WWII binoculars.

 

[enfieldspares]

Tried at 8.00pm. Now failing to be able to define objects such that you don't know if what you are looking at is in focus or not in focus. You can still see objects that are of different colour to what is behind them but unlike at 7.30pm where I could take what I was looking at out of focus and back into sharp focus I can't do that now.

 

[Sako75Hunter]

But that they'd hold their own against my later father's old British Army 7x50 WWII binoculars.

"A cheap £50 telescopic sight manufactured in China today has better resolution, magnification and light gathering properties than the very best optical scopes of 50 years ago, and in all probability is not even using glass for its lenses, but optical grade plastic."

Martin Pegler, 'Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper', (2004), p. 330.

 

[Rory]

"A cheap £50 telescopic sight manufactured in China today has better resolution, magnification and light gathering properties than the very best optical scopes of 50 years ago, and in all probability is not even using glass for its lenses, but optical grade plastic."

Martin Pegler, 'Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper', (2004), p. 330.

That is a very bold statement by Mr Pegler which I don't think holds any water.
I don't deny that some cheap PRC optics aren't 'bad', there is no way that their edge to edge clarity light transmission (Mr Pegler falls into the 'light gathering' trap, tut tut). Better than some run of the mill optics? Perhaps, but not better than the best.

 

[enfieldspares]

I'd disagree with RORY. My cheap BSA 3-9 variable "Made in China" that I bought from Knibbs three or four years ago for £50 is better at 3x than ever was the 'scope on my Lee Enfield No4(T) and it the Mark 3 configuration too. And as good as the old 4x81 Light Pecar on my first stalking rifle a Churchill Mauser .270 stalking rifle made in the late 1960s.

 

[enfieldspares]

Anyway here's Lidl's listing. The lens caps are of the thinnest of rubber as is the bag and straps of the thinnest of nylon seat belt type cloth.

Auriol 10 x 50 Binoculars - at Lidl UK

Auriol 10 x 50 Binoculars - Spot the wonders of nature in exceptional clarity Continuous dioptre compensation Flexible, comfortable eyecups Precise,

www.lidl.co.uk

 

[BRYAN]

Are they re badged Swarro's?

 

[enfieldspares]

Are they re badged Swarro's?

Supposedly according to some on the internet they is some sort of Bresser connection with Lidl in the past.