Barska Gladiator 20 140×80 Zoom Binoculars at Amazon
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful. The images are just completely and unacceptably hazy. I spent 2 hours with a tripod in my living room looking out across a field, and eventually determined that I could see no more detail at any magnification than my pair of 10×30 binoculars. And by the way, the magnification at anywhere near the 20x and 140x extremes was a farce. I’m guessing that the usable zoom range is maybe something like 30x to 60x, although there are no numbers on it to tell me what the zoom level actually is. And gosh, again, I just can’t emphasize enough how hazy the images are, no matter the amount of tinkering you do. It’s not a focusing problem nor an alignment problem; it’s a lens quality problem. Like they used some cheap old plastic lenses in there somewhere from 1902. And for that 21 mm eye relief spec… I really don’t know where they got that, and it is a complete joke. It seems much, much shorter, at any zoom level. The 14 mm of eye relief on my other binoculars works much better. I kid you not. If you have the money to spend on these, get something else for the same money, even if the quoted specs on that something else are much less. I suppose that it could be possible that a mediocre pair of binoculars cannot be made with these listed specs at this price. But if that is true, then they shouldn’t try to sell something like this at all. I’m really not picky. I buy cheap when I can, and accept the usual corresponding drop in quality. And I’m usually happy doing that. But trust me, the drop is just too large with these. Again, spend your money on another pair with lesser specs and better glass, or accept that you need to pay a lot more money for better binoculars. For example, I would bet that a pair of Barska Gladiator 12-60×70, for about 1/3 the price, simply can’t be any worse than these (although after this experience, I wouldn’t give Barska another chance on those 12-60×70′s). I was torn between giving 2 stars and 1, because they do seem to be made well. But giving 2 stars would imply that they are reasonably functional, and they are not. These are really worse than whatever pair of plain-Jane binoculars that you already own. 15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. |
For such a horrible quality image, these are still overpriced
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