Steiner Navigator Pro 7x30 marine binoculars - Extremely rugged, sharp images, 5m water proof - Outstanding viewing quality for beginners and professionals, Blue

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One optical coating that is important to mention here for their intended marine uses is that they have a hydrophobic/aquaphobic material on the outer lens surfaces. As far as a detailed review and side-by-sides, well maybe one day if I am feeling qualified and time-rich. Like the previous model, the new Navigator series offers two models with the popular analogue integrated compass.

Advanced accessoires We developed for you a new universal attachment system for the neoprene harness. I wonder how good they will still work when I am 60 -- however on the Komz there is a simple trick to make them CF -- just get a big rubber band and put it over the barrels. In moderate and even fairly low light conditions I still thought these performed as well as I had hoped and it was only in very low light at sunset that the performance noticeably drops off if you compare them to a larger instrument like an 8x42 or 7x50 for examples. The Steiner Navigator Pro 7x30 is a very strong light telescope with a large pupil, which makes the viewer virtually 24 hours useful. It speaks volumes about our education system in my view that Steiner for many, many years has been able to sell binoculars with an alleged “sports auto focus” system that is a pure marketing gag.Of course, young people with a greater accommodation capacity of their eyes than me (I am 68) may believe that something like an “autofocus” reduces the need for them to refocus between various distances, but that just means that their eyes are performing most of the focusing work that usually should occur in the binocular. They also come with twist-up eyecups, allowing you to leave your glasses on while you look through the eyepieces, as well as a dioptre compensation ring, which you can use to compensate for differences in vision between your left and right eye and obtain a razor-sharp image.

This large, illuminated compass also features a bearing mark and facilitates navigation on all bodies of water. The prisms’s in the binoculars have "floating" mounts, meaning they are fixed in flexible silicone material that protects the valuable optical components inside the binoculars. It may be that as I have grown older my sight is not quite what it used to be but these 'glasses' are truly in a class of their own.Rather unfairly, they all get tarred with the same brush and I will admit to often stating in my reviews of binoculars using folding cups that I would have preferred to have had the twist-up type instead. As is most often the case on this design of binocular, all Steiner Navigator Pro binoculars use the fold-down type of eyecups.