Heads up : Aldi binoculars are back

[Jamie]

Zoom Binoculars £12.99

Powerful zoom setting: ×10 to ×30 magnification

Poroprism 60mm objective lens

Centre focus for quick focusing

Diopter eye adjuster and rubber eye cups (for spectacle wearers)

High-quality rubber finish

Includes: bag with strap, lens caps, cleaning cloths

Weight: 1138g

Size: 24.3 (L) × 7.5 (D) × 16.2cm (W)

[OXO]

Nice one Jamie, how much for these Binos?

James

[Jamie]

Sorry James the price is £12.99 :shock:

[GordonCopestake]

Stonking, i missed them the last time round, have to see if i can catch them this time!

[OXO]

WOW thats cheap Jamie :shock:

I shall deffo after get a pair i have some experiments i want to do with binos

Cheers!

James :sunny:

[SteelRat]

Just remember to take your own carrier bag

[Jamie]

:)

[OXO]

:)

[Zeffer]

Just out of interest, what are the optics like?

It's just my birding bins cost £400 and they are a very average pair (Minox BRs). Decent ones are more like £900 (e.g. Leica). If you look through anything under £100 they are appalling - very hard to pick out any detail and get accurate colour rendition.

For astronomy, is there less of an issue?

[GazOC]

I thought cheap zooms were a big no-no for astro binos?

[russ]

I bought a pair of Practika 7-35x50 zoom binos from Argos back in 2002. Supposedly Bak7 prisms and multicoated. At the time reduced from £59 to £29. I thought they would be handy and a well known photography brand. But were they?

Oh no! they were carp. The eyepieces were like looking into a couple of orthos. No eye relief, 2mm exit pupil and very dark. Colour correction was bleddy awful. All round useless.

That's not to say these are but I wouldn't bet against it. The only decent pair i've got on the cheap sp far was the Meade 10x50 Bak4 binos from Lidl's for £14.99.

Russ

[Brass n glass]

O've sampled quite a few zoom binoculars and they've all had tiny fields of view at all mags plus a lot of colour fringing at high powers. I had a Sunagor 20-60X70 for a couple of years and it was useless for almost everything, especially astronomy.