For example, this option boasts waterproofed, nitrogen-filled housing to prevent fogging along with high-quality BaK-4 prisms used in their construction to increase brightness.

Broadly speaking, the smaller the device is, the more it’s suitable for ramblers or sightseers, rather than birders though as some of the featured examples attest, that isn’t always the case.Still, if the best-quality image is important to you, they’re fantastic for the money and represent a big step up from the cheaper Olympus 10×25 and RSPB Puffin 8×32 models below. The whole point of buying binoculars is to see far away objects up close, so there’s no point in buying binoculars that don’t have good magnification options.

And the sky is always changing. Summertime offers such showpiece sights as Mizar and Alcor, the famous pair of stars at the bend in the Big Dipper's handle, and the perfectly round little fuzzball of M13, the Great Cluster in Hercules. Sweep the summer Milky Way from Cygnus overhead through Sagittarius low in the south, looking for knots of stars and luminous bubbles of interstellar gas. Some sections of the Milky Way look, to me, better in binoculars for astronomy than through any telescope.Where these Opticrons fall slightly short is in what’s included, or rather not included, in the box. All you get is a basic pouch and a simple, non-padded strap, whereas the Celestrons include a stretchy neoprene strap, a pouch with extra compartments and a harness. Binoculars have lots of different specs, but two key ones are best to focus on if you want to keep things simple. These are magnification and lens size. Ultimately you don’t have to spend the top price to get a decent optic. What you must consider is how much you are going to use your binoculars and what are you going to use them for. You may be thinking that more magnification is better, but in practice once you get to 10× and above, it gets harder (and more tiring) to hold binoculars steady if they're not on a mount or equipped with image stabilization.

Lastly, a cleaning cloth is also an excellent item with your children’s toy binoculars. We all know that kids can be grubby! Therefore, the lens glass can easily get covered in grime and dirt. A lens cloth allows you to keep them clean! Style and Colour OptionsNow turn the binoculars around and repeat the procedure, looking for colored ve Even the best-behaved and older kids can easily drop objects and damage them unintentionally! Unfortunately, it’s unavoidable concerning kids’ toys.

Roof-prism units are smaller and lighter-weight but have a more complicated, touchy optical design, which makes them more difficult and expensive to manufacture well. As a result, roof-prism binoculars tend to cluster at the high end of the market and, inexplicably, at the bottom end too — but not so often in between. A saying around my local astronomy club is that if your roof-prism binoculars don't seem to be performing well, you didn't spend enough money! Giant BinocularsIn fact, the field of view is so wide – on the 10×42 it’s 7.6-degrees and the same as older EL 8.5×42 – that you can step up in magnification without the usual pitfalls of doing so. We generally prefer 8x binoculars over 10x or 12x binoculars because, normally, they strike a better balance between magnification and field of view. These binoculars, however, give you the best of both worlds. The 8x NL Pure have an even wider field of view at a frankly unbelievable 9.1-degrees. We hope you have found this guide on the best binoculars for kids useful! Why not buy your children a pair of binoculars today? You will be surprised at the different ways they can use them. The Steiner Ultrasharp binoculars also come with 3D features which are designed to help bring far away object to life. Focus Overall, at the price, the Pentax SD 8×42 WP is a great buy, and well worth the extra over the usual budget favourites.