ChiefRanger Loc: Cape May

Best place is online of course but West Marine is good. Be very careful to get the correct type for what you want them for, and make sure you get the magnification correct for what you are using them for, and your depth of field. Make someone at the store explain to you what for instance 10X50 means, VERY important. Also, don't buy very cheap ones.

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

One of the things you can always do is to call B&H and talk to one of their experts. I just did that for projectors and they helped me get what I wanted in a price range I was willing to pay. I find them VERY helpful pre-purchase and they are no-pressure. Best of luck.

sendero72 Loc: Candler, North Carolina

Go with Vortex. Great glass and the best warranty on the market. Even if you buy a used pair of Vortex, they are still under warranty. If you run over them with your truck, drop them off a cliff, they will repair or replace them!

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Outdoorsafe Loc: Colorado Springs

I am a photography tour leader working in southern Africa and see a lot of binoculars. The biggest mistake I see inexperienced people make is buying more magnification than is needed. 10 power binocs for example are hard to hold still enough to enjoy what you are looking at. On hot days 10 X binocs also magnify heat haze to an unpleasant level. While it is not always true - higher magnification also means bigger binocs and heavier binocs. I like 8x32 or 8x42 binocs. You can spend well over $1000 but you din''t have to - have a look at the Leupold line of optics. The adage "buy the best you can afford...."" holds true as well. Hope this helps

al lehman Loc: San jose, ca.

If you can't be helpful then abstain from your childish comments. Winter must be getting to ya.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

I use Pentax 12x50 water proof and fog proof binoculars. About $200.00 and are excellent and clear and rugged with a rubber exterior cover. Used them first to glass in the hills of SE AZ while mule deer and javalina hunting. Now just for distant observation.
Again very good and don't break the bank.

Wacket

Binoculars are described by numbers such as 10 x 30. That means 10-power magnifications, the 30 is the diameter of the large lens on the front. The larger the diameter of the front lens, the more light is collected. Thus, the image of a 10 x 50 binocular will be brighter than the image of a 10 x 30. The desired magnification, of course, depends on what you will be doing with the binoculars. If you will be observing grizzly bears from a considerable distance, high magnification might be what you need. On the other hand, if you will be observing birds outside your window, lower magnification might be what you want.

In addition to the above factors, the quality of the image will depend on the quality of the individual lenses. Inexpensive binoculars may have a price too good to be true, because they may have molded plastic lenses. Expensive binoculars tend to have higher quality lenses. For relatively large front lenses, those that are high quality plastic (acrylic) lenses will be considerably lighter than those with glass lenses. If you are carrying large binoculars in the field for many hours, recognize that equipment tends to gain weight as time passes <grin>.

There is no substitute for looking through the binoculars in actual conditions you will be experiencing. That way, you can decide which factors are important for YOU. It doesn't matter what some reviewer says if it meets your needs.

In my personal experience, for my needs, a middle-price binocular is what I need. The ultra-cheap ones aren't sufficient, and the expensive ones are overkill.

Good luck.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

If you click on ,Quote Reply, before answering we will know who you are talking to. It helps a lot.

Dennis

frodoboy

Creative Live has tons of video workshops on Photoshop. One of the best is Adobe Photoshop CC: The Complete Guide with Ben Wilmore. There are 19 video tutorials and all of the images he uses are available to download if you buy the class and he also includes bonus materials and cheat sheets. This course starts off with the very basics and then moves on to the more complex aspects of Photoshop CC. Ben also has a complete course on Lightroom. The beauty of these courses is you don't have to pay a fortune for a workshop AND you basically get one on one instruction AND at your own pace. At workshops, you have to try to follow along with the instructor and sometimes you can't produce what he or she just did but have to move on. With an online course, you can pause it, rewind it and go over it until you get it. Much better retention that way in my book!

Another great program out there is On1 Photo Raw 10. That is an incredibly powerful program similar to Photoshop but HUGELY easier to create multi-layered and nested-layered images without having to understand the complexity of layers. You can adjust something to start off and then add multiple corrections and effects on top and then always go back and adjust that bottom layer at any time and it will still affect the whole image. There are a LOT of tutorials for On1 as well.

Hope this helps!

Jwshelton Loc: Denver,CO

Please excuse my piling on, but your comments are spot on.

It is disappointing to see people derive pleasure from belittling and ridiculing others.

I will help you cover the hole that the TB crawls into!v

Jwshelton Loc: Denver,CO

Javelin the same. Purchased in a local camera store in Peoria about 8 years ago. Love them.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

Canon's Image Stabilizing binoculars have been mentioned by others too, and I'll add my support also. Particularly for higher magnification, 10x or more, or for older folks, these are just extremely nice. But the particulars for binoculars depends on each person and what they do.

I never hike and don't carry my binocs more that a few feet distance. They spend the winter on the front seat of my truck, and the summer in a pack on a 4W ATV. I also never have much need for looking at anything close... the Arctic Tundra is flat and treeless, so distant viewing is the norm. I use a pair of 15x50 Canon IS binoculars. (Plus I have a pair of 10x Leupold binoculars that I loan to tourists.)

Using IS binocs is so much nicer! Well worth the extra cost.

berchman Loc: South Central PA

I understand where you're coming from, but why waste your energy? It took me less than a minute on Google to find these and many more:
http://thebinocularsguy.com/
http://www.opticsplanet.com/reviews/reviews-binoculars.html

smithro3

The only bad question is the one you didn't ask!!!