Recommended Bargain

Last year I bought a pair of 60 mm zoom binocs from Aldi, assuming that they would be useful while hill-walking but not for astronomy.

I was surprised at the quality.

At 30X on a tripod Jupiter is focussed banded disk and at 10X (its natural hand-held mag.) it is like an apo.
Its 44% increase in light grasp make it vastly superior to any 50mm I have ever held.

The prisms go "up" rather than "out" to save width.

Field is small though at 3 deg. but that doesn't bother me.
(Exactly matches Orions Belt at 10X....Two stars of the Belt at 30x)

Virtual field is narrow as well, not "panoramic", but in a dark sky at 10X nebulae are superb.

Stars are "diamonds on black velvet" in rural areas.

There is field curvature, but at 10X who cares.
Its not perfect,at 30x the edge stars suffer a bit.

They are selling it for LESS than 18 Euros next week.
You can't go wrong.

I am going to buy a spare one for the car.

Peter.

Do you know what day it is coming in? Checked their website and it didn't mention anything.

Thurs. 26th Oct.

P.S Its ALDI not LIDL

They are selling it for LESS than 18 Euros next week.
You can't go wrong.


Peter.

If I could just urge some caution. I tried these out a few years ago, bought two pairs, one for me, one for a friend. Both pairs were a disaster, they looked ok at X10 but when I zoomed high, the moon looked like an egg in both pairs. I would urge caution and try before you buy

Looked at the rising crescent moon at 7.00 this morning at 30X on the tripod.
(I don't normally take a binocs up to 30X though...I have scopes.)

Beautiful 3D sight.
Some edge of field distortion.
No eggs in sight.
A 2000 Euro Zeiss is much better. 18 Euros is not 2000 Euros.

Far superior to the 15X70 disaster I got from Celestron a few years back.
Those Celestrons gave me an aversion to binocs for a long time. I am still hyper cautious about binocs.

I said they are not perfect, but they are certainly not BAD.

Walk into Aldi next day and say "money back please" and they will give it back without question.

Aldi ARE good like that.

What make are yours ftodonoghue ?

Peter.