Helios Binoculars, who would you compare them to?

[Chaz2b]

I’m turning into quite a fan of Russian made optics, I’ve now have six telescopes and a pair of 10 x 50s, Helios is quite a good name when it comes to optics, but how good are they?

With whom would you compare them to? and what experience have you had both terrestrial and astronomy?

chaz

[Peter Drew]

I've had several items of Russian manufacture and found them to be far better than their price suggests.  The binoculars are rugged, well collimated at point of purchase and give sharp images both day or night.  If anything they give a slightly dimmer or warm image compared to more expensive makes, possibly due to the heavy looking coatings.  The 10x50 "Tento" models were so cheap when introduced I use to buy them and then cut them up to make excellent finders.  I salvaged the prisms for other purposes and when I supplied some to a laboratory they tested them as being 1/10 wave accuracy.       🙂