I believe the best source of binocular information on the Internet, by far, is allbinos.com. Unfortunately for this question, they don't have many extensive reviews of smaller binoculars; here the ranking table for the smallest binoculars they do, 8x32s: https://www.allbinos.com/allbinos_ranking-binoculars_ranking-8x32.html You can follow the links to the extensive reviews, but the tables show the overall score and price, so here for example, you can see the Nikon-HG L 8x32 DCF has an overall rating that is 94% of the highest-rated model, at 30% of the price. (The prices are in zlotys - the site is in Poland! - but the relative numbers in US$ are probably similar. They also have rankings for other models based on user reviews, but those are not extensive, Here's one for 6x30s: https://www.allbinos.com/Readers_ranking-binoculars_ranking-6x30.html. The list of all the ranking tables is here: https://www.allbinos.com/rankings.html
-- Stephen Greenfield Minneapolis ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 19:19:49 +0000 From: Miller Johnson <johnson-mil...@msn.com> Subject: Compact Binocular Advice Please Dear birders, I'm doing a bus tour in Italy next month that will not be for birding, but I will have some free time most days. I normally carry my Swarovski 8.5x42 bins when I travel, but I think they'll just be too heavy for the amount of use I expect to get out of them on this trip. Do you have recommendations for smaller and lighter-weighted binoculars for travel? I use my "big" binoculars most days but, as I age, I'll probably have more use for a lighter pair long-term anyway. Budget is in the $1000 range, but willing to go up if it'll make a big difference. Thanks for any guidance you can provide. Emailing me directly will help keep the clutter off these list-serves, especially as we're going to be getting a lot of traffic as spring seems to have sprung! Molly Jo Miller Dakota Co ---- General information and guidelines for posting: https://moumn.org/listservice.html Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly.
