I really liked the idea of Minox's Individual Focus 6.5x32mm binoculars when I saw them reviewed in a magazine a couple of years ago. I don't feel the need for really high magnification and I don't want very small binoculars for hunting because of the poor performance in low light, so these seemed like a very good compromise in size and magnification.
I recently shopped CameraLand on line because many members here have spoken well of them, and now I sing with that choir. I got my Minox binoculars today. Of course you can get significantly better optical quality if you throw lots more money at the problem, but at US $179.99 + $27.50 shipping and the C$23.xx customs duty the postman just took off me these seem like great value to me. (Maybe because I've been lugging around some older 7x50 Bushnells, albeit some of the better Bushnells of their day.)
They took 13 days to get here, which seems reasonable to me to avoid raising the shipping costs, though there was some concern in the last week because they give you a USPS tracking number and I guess some postal worker forgot to scan my package because it never showed up online. I'd have been perfectly happy not knowing.
I recently shopped CameraLand on line because many members here have spoken well of them, and now I sing with that choir. I got my Minox binoculars today. Of course you can get significantly better optical quality if you throw lots more money at the problem, but at US $179.99 + $27.50 shipping and the C$23.xx customs duty the postman just took off me these seem like great value to me. (Maybe because I've been lugging around some older 7x50 Bushnells, albeit some of the better Bushnells of their day.)
They took 13 days to get here, which seems reasonable to me to avoid raising the shipping costs, though there was some concern in the last week because they give you a USPS tracking number and I guess some postal worker forgot to scan my package because it never showed up online. I'd have been perfectly happy not knowing.
