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20% drop from $549. This is high end optics, beats everything else with a spiked baseball bat.
A notch down from M7, but not much
Also - https://www.cliftoncameras.co.uk/Blog/review-new-nikon-monar…
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8x42 is a good sweet spot imo. If you go to, say, 10x42, you’ll get reduced image brightness, and worse twilight performance (due to the smaller exit pupil). To maintain the same exit pupil, you would have to shift to a 10x50 (larger and heavier).
Also, an 8x will amplify your hand shake by 8x. A 10x amplifies it by 10x. So it’s easier to handhold these binos.
Anyone chasing some 12x56 could look up Scoped Out for the Delta Titanium, reduced from 700 to 500. https://www.scopedout.com.au/Delta-Optical-Titanium-12x56-RO…
Good for all rounder use? Thought I wanted a 10x42 set but now not sure
There is not much difference between 8x and 10x (I have both) but it's easier to hold 8x without hand shaking.
My neighbours hate this deal
I am beginning to think the single mum of 3 next door is doing it on purpose though
What are the best binos on the market with a camera function (including of course, the 'anti-shake' thing that all phones/digital cams now have)?
This seems to be an oddly hard product to find, at least for a decent price. Is there a logical reason for this? I would have thought that all decent binos (and telescopes for that matter) would have an in-built cam these days, because it would be so cheap to incorporate that; but no. Why?
Have a very short think about how cameras work, versus how binoculars work (re the optical path).
Have a very short think about the fact that binos with a built in cam do in fact exist. I was wondering why they were seemingly all so expensive though. That said, I have now found some on 'Temu' for $77. No mention of the cam specs though, so I am hesitant to buy them. I would want binos with at least 20x mag, and a cam with at least 20 MP resolution.
You didn't think about it at all, did you.
I order to capture an image, you need to place a sensor in the optical path and capture that light. Binoculars have no obstruction in the optical path. The objective captures the light, and it's passed through a series of lenses and prisms to flip and magnify the image, then it goes straight into your eyes. This produces the brightest and clearest image. Every time the light bounces, you lose some light transmission and the image gets darker. There is no mirror on earth that is 100% efficient.
Old school DSLRs used to capture light with the lens and direct it into the viewfinder. So what you saw was exactly what the lens saw. Then, when you decided to take the photo, the mirror would flip, redirecting the light to the camera sensor and taking the image. During this time, the viewfinder obviously blacks out, because the light is being redirected. Could you build something like that into a pair of binoculars? Sure. But you completely defeat the purpose. You'll have a bigger, bulikier, heavier binocular, that blacks out your view every time you take a photo.
Add onto that, that the mirror flip to take the image is quite violent and introduces shake. So now let's build in some image stabilization system, adding further cost and weight.
@ASR-Briggs: LOL, again you seem to be stubbornly ignoring the fact that binos with a cam built in actually exist. What exactly is your point?
Here is some learning material for you:
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/buying-guides/best-binocu…
@GnarlyKnuckles: ……..I didn't say that they didn't or couldn't exist, I said that the compromises you need to make for it to work render the whole thing heavier, bulkier, more expensive, and for use purely as a binocular, worse.
Go on. Disagree.
Why sell you a product that does two things when they can sell you two products?
'Twitchers' would love them I reckon. Imagine if instead of just pencilling a 'tick' into a little log book, they could actually snap some pics of each new species they spot. I suppose there is always the option of buying a high end cam with a telescopic lens, but that is not the sort of product I am after (big/bulky, heavy, exy, etc.). I just want some decent binos, with a decent built in cam, for a decent price.
I might try and find an online twitcher community/forum, and post a question there.
Still on backorder. 🥲
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Good deal for Harry…