Thread: Bino recommendations

Originally Posted by deepsouthaussie

I've got some Zen Ray Prime HD's for about that price from the states a few years ago. They are bloody good for the money glass wise.. Have compared next to Leica HDs and new Bushnell Fusions and stack up well. I'd say on par with the Bushnells glass but not as good as the Euro. Have heard some poor reports on warranty claims though.

My hunting mate has the ZR Prime HD's in 10x42, i have the much less expensive Vortex Diamondback 10x42's. We have compared them side by side back and forth on the hill at last light. We both agreed, the Vortex DB was a touch brighter the last few minutes of light. During the day you cannot really tell them apart.

You can get Diamondbacks for sub $400 NZ on trademe. Sure expensive euro optics are bound to be better, but in all reality how much better are they. I bet they are not 10x better. Its not hard to spend $4,000 on euro binos if you wanted too.

The Diamondback for the $ are very hard to go past, unless you are an optics snob that couldn't possibly be seen with anything that wasn't euro ;-)

Originally Posted by GWH

My hunting mate has the ZR Prime HD's in 10x42, i have the much less expensive Vortex Diamondback 10x42's. We have compared them side by side back and forth on the hill at last light. We both agreed, the Vortex DB was a touch brighter the last few minutes of light. During the day you cannot really tell them apart.

You can get Diamondbacks for sub $400 NZ on trademe. Sure expensive euro optics are bound to be better, but in all reality how much better are they. I bet they are not 10x better. Its not hard to spend $4,000 on euro binos if you wanted too.

The Diamondback for the $ are very hard to go past, unless you are an optics snob that couldn't possibly be seen with anything that wasn't euro ;-)

Until you get a headache after glassing for an hour or so then the price difference becomes relevant.
Optics snob? Probably.

Originally Posted by GWH

My hunting mate has the ZR Prime HD's in 10x42, i have the much less expensive Vortex Diamondback 10x42's. We have compared them side by side back and forth on the hill at last light. We both agreed, the Vortex DB was a touch brighter the last few minutes of light. During the day you cannot really tell them apart.

You can get Diamondbacks for sub $400 NZ on trademe. Sure expensive euro optics are bound to be better, but in all reality how much better are they. I bet they are not 10x better. Its not hard to spend $4,000 on euro binos if you wanted too.

The Diamondback for the $ are very hard to go past, unless you are an optics snob that couldn't possibly be seen with anything that wasn't euro ;-)

Nailed It chap.