10×42 Ultra HD Binoculars with Phone Adapter and Harness – 24mm Large View Eyepiece, Edge-to-Edge Sharpness, 6.5° Wide Angle Field of View – Lightweight Waterproof Binoculars for Bird Watching Huntin1

*** Update 08/11/2024 ***We just returned from a trip to Bar Harbor, ME. These binoculars performed well. We enjoyed using them on 2 boat trips to see puffins, seals, cormorants, loons, bald eagles, and many other birds. The Scoopx easily picked up the subjects from the various difficult backgrounds on both land and sea. In other words, the contrast and color rendition works very well.On this trip my mom loaned us her spare pair of Swarovskis, we didn’t fight over them and were equally happy to use either one. That’s saying a lot about these binoculars. The Swarovski are the CL Companion model, so not their best line, but offer great optics in a lightweight compact design. The colors are still slightly better than the Scoopx and same with the sharpness. But the Scoopx feels better in my hands and are very closely matched in performance. I still think they are a great buy and am thinking about getting another pair since my wife and I had to share with our two girls.Definitely think they are 5 star binoculars, and only deducted the 1 star for the strap as mentioned below.*** Original review ***I have used and owned top of the line binoculars and these are pretty good. Definitely not as good as Swarovski and not as good as the premium line of Zeiss, but way better than most $300-$400 binoculars. I would place these in the $500 range.What I like, they are easy to hold, focus well, are sharp, bright, and maintain good color rendering. I have not noticed much fringing or chromatic aberration. They seem to be water resistant as advertised.Why I gave them four stars instead of five, the strap broke while using them at a field hockey game. Lucky, I had the binoculars in my hand when the strap broke, so it did not fall. I did not snag it on anything, I did not tug on it hard, but just lifted the binoculars to my eyes when I felt the strap fall down to my waist.I took these to the Grand Tetons and to Yellowstone and was very thankful I had them. They were really good at viewing bison, moose, elk, bald eagles, and pronghorn. I am happy that the strap did not break on that trip.Like I mentioned above, I use these at my daughter’s field hockey games and it focuses quickly and makes tracking the ball and players much easier than without.If you are wondering why I say they do not equal the quality of the ultra-premium brands, well those brands make the images pop. Bird colors are so vivid and the details of everything you look at are just so sharp. These binoculars do have vivid colors and sharp images, but it is just not the same.I would definitely buy them again. I miss my Zeiss binoculars that got stolen, but these are lighter, smaller, an 1/10th of the cost, and perform about 80-85% of the Zeiss. When I use my Mom’s Swarovskis, well they are just about perfect but are way more expensive and not worth it to me.