Bino's

[bsa]

my binos minox 8x42 new on ebay £110 plus post as good as ya 1000£ jobs had the lieka side by side nothing in it,put ya money to woulds a good scope

 

[308boy]

my binos minox 8x42 new on ebay £110 plus post as good as ya 1000£ jobs had the lieka side by side nothing in it,put ya money to woulds a good scope

Dont know what drugs you are on but I want some. wonder how swarovski and leica can get away with charging so much when the £110 are just as good?

Not slating minox but there are very many types and the HG (high grade) ones aint £110.

you get what you pay for in life (mostly).

have fun

 

[callumity]

There are plenty of 8x40/42s from Nikon, Pentax etc., in the £200-£300 bracket that will do 98% of the Swaro job at a sixth of the price. My Barr & Stroud ED glass jobbies cost £217 delivered from Microglobe. Are the Swaros better? Of course.

There is a strain of poster (E.g. Is there any alternative to....?) that will apparently not go shooting unless dressed in top end gear and toting the most priceless bundook and optics. They must be bankers because they know the price of everything and the value of not a lot. Now, what must I been seen wearing this season? Or is this just all tired Herberts/Huberts punching a keyboard and phantasising about stalker's porn?? There! Got that off my chest!! Time I logged off for good.

 

[Lawiswar]

As I said in my first post on this subject, all of this advice is useless unless you go and look through the binoculars. I am no banker but I looked through a lot of bins before I bought mine and I think Swaro ELs are the best by an appreciable margin. You may disagree but most people can see the difference between a quality pair of bins and a cheap pair. I have a pair of Nickons which constantly top Which polls of the best binoculars (which curiously do not seem to include Swaro or Zeiss) and I could tell the difference in any and all circumstances between them and my Swaros.
My point is simple, generally people do not choose to buy these prestige makes because they are posers (anyone who sees how most of us dress to go stalking would know stalkers generally aren't into posing). Most people buy them because they look through them and think "wow look at that!"

 

[Deutsch - Drahthaar]

Personally i think there's no substitute for going to a shop and looking down as many as you can. I've got some Swarovski el 8.5 x 42s. I have used a friends Zeiss victories and whilst there isn't an awful lot of difference I honestly think you can't beat the Swarovskis. They'll do me a lifetime and, if you've got the kind of luck I have, you might find a bargain on fleabay (but be careful not to get a stolen pair).

I bought a pair of Swarovski 10x42 new SLC HD from ebay for £850.00 I was dubious at first as to if they were stolen/had transferable warrant/and were new as the seller stated has they came with no warranty card, So I contacted Swaro UK with the serial number who were very helpfull and they confirmed all was ok and could register on line for 10 years warranty. I bought them and they arrived as described and saved £500.00

Prior to buying blind I did my homework and tried as many as I could get hold of otherwise you could make an expensive mistake.

 

[Lawiswar]

I also bought mine on eBay and had a very similar experience with Swaro. Their after care is brilliant.

 

[JabaliHunter]

There are plenty of 8x40/42s from Nikon, Pentax etc., in the £200-£300 bracket that will do 98% of the Swaro job at a sixth of the price. My Barr & Stroud ED glass jobbies cost £217 delivered from Microglobe. Are the Swaros better? Of course.

There is a strain of poster (E.g. Is there any alternative to....?) that will apparently not go shooting unless dressed in top end gear and toting the most priceless bundook and optics. They must be bankers because they know the price of everything and the value of not a lot. Now, what must I been seen wearing this season? Or is this just all tired Herberts/Huberts punching a keyboard and phantasising about stalker's porn?? There! Got that off my chest!! Time I logged off for good.

Yes you have to pay through the nose for top of the range and only the individual can decide whether it is worth it for themselves. There are other good options, but there are rubbish ones too and it takes a lot of trial and error to find them, which could end up costing more in the long run.

From allbinos.com

Three companies, Leica, Swarovski and Zeiss, are considered absolute equipment stalwarts when it comes to binoculars. In fact it used to be taken for granted that, if you bought a Leica Ultravid, a Swarovski EL or a Zeiss Victory model, you would deal with optics and mechanics of the highest quality for sure. As time went by it turned out that these binoculars weren’t exactly flawless and the competitors didn’t let the grass grow under their feet either. Our test proved that Nikon binoculars from SE and HG series could rival the products from that three companies. Also the most expensive devices produced by such companies as Alpen Optics, Bushnell, Leupold or Kowa could offer similarly good properties. What’s more, manufacturers from Asia haven’t told the last word yet and the EDG series of the Nikon company is a good example of it – its price is as high as that of the most expensive binoculars on the market but the quality of its optics can exceed that of the Leica Ultravid HD, the Zeiss Victory and the old model of Swarovski EL.