Recommended binoculars please...

[markta]

....for my girlfriend's daughter...

Mainly for birdwatching, so focal length important as is clarity...

Budget £200.

Any ideas please peeps for anything good for this amount of money. Defo cannot stretch to the £500/600 mark for one of those Canon IS bins...

Thanks

 

[admirable]

There is a pair listed in the for sale section.

 

[Tbabe]

I have these ..

http://www.swoptics.co.uk/view.asp?KEY=2390

 

[bindex]

I went for the 8x42 version of these Olympus binoculars LINK
Slightly over your budget but they're very good. I'd say they're a decent mid range choice. It's worth having a look at some of the Pentax ones too, they look rather nice.

I'd love a pair of Zeiss or Leica but just can't justify that kind of cost!

cheers

 

[RogDen31]

OPticron have a nice range with some within your budget,

i have BGA explorers 10x42 for £189

http://www.opticron.co.uk/Pages/explorer.htm

 

[Zaphod]

i also have a pair of opticrons. These aren't the ones i have but they are very good ones.

http://www.swoptics.co.uk/view.asp?KEY=3160

 

[markta]

Thanks for all the replies!

After a little research, my girlfriend has gone for the following...

http://www.binoculars-uk.co.uk/cgi-...SHOP= &PN=Opticron_HR_WP_10x42.html#a272#a272

£201.75 delivered, for the 10x power bins

Thanks again, really really helpful

 

[x777]

A lesser known company - Bresser - produce really good optics; had some roof prisms 10x42s of theirs until I replaced them with Nikon Monarch 12x56 (which are excellent, but beyond your budget unless secondhand).

As always with these things, get yourself down to a decent retailer and start trying them for yourself, and maybe buy a birdwatching magazine (in disguise if you have to!) to see the myriad of adverts and prices.