£10 Bino's

[Akyra]

My girlfriend has just started working in our local Cash Generator, she said there was a pair of bino's for £10 and wrote down what was written on them.

Universa Kristall

10 x 50

96m / 1000m

Are they any good? I would only use them for quick observations while I was away from my scope.

[Ant]

Can she errrr borrow them for the next clear evening and tehn you could have a look through them.

Nothing like a field test!

Ant

[Brass n glass]

Never heard of them, I'm afraid, but that's a very narrow field of view. For £10 I think you'd be better off with a Bresser 10X50 from Lidl (114m/1000m). They come with a 5-year guarantee, good build quality and pretty good optics.

[Akyra]

The Lidl's around by us doesnt really do much hardware stuff, just cheap make food. So would these ones from CashGen be considered 'decent' at all? Or not worth the plastic they are made of?

[Brass n glass]

Maybe not - I can't find that brand mentioned anywhere on the web, and there is some real junk about. But even if the quality was really good, I wouldn't buy one with such a narrow FOV because you would lose one of the main points of having 10X50 binoculars, which is to get a wide view.