Last Friday, Hayneedle’s binocular specialty store, Binoculars.com announced its first-ever Binocular of the Year Awards. It’s kind of a big deal and the response so far suggests that this was a pretty good idea.
On our staff is a team of optics experts, who also provide support for our telescopes specialty store Telescopes.com. These folks developed an extensive list of criteria for testing the performance of various binoculars in our most popular binocular categories, then they took to the field and conducted these tests themselves. Now the results are in.
The Binoculars of the Year Awards were developed to recognize outstanding products and to help our binoculars customers understand the latest technologies and how they translate to real-world performance.
Here are this year’s winners, just in time for the summer outdoor season:
Best Travel Binocular:
Leica Ultravid 10×25 Compact Binoculars
Best Birding Binocular:
Pentax 8×43 DCF SP Binoculars
Best Hunting Binocular:
10×42 Leupold Camo Cascade Binoculars
Best Astronomy Binocular:
Zhumell Tachyon 25×100 Astronomy Binoculars
Binocular of the Year (a.k.a. Best All-Around Binocular):
Nikon 10×42 Monarch ATB Binoculars with Dielectric Coating
The Best of the Best:
Swarovski EL Binoculars
Check out the full write-up on Binoculars.com to see why each of these models was selected.
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