Nikon Sportstar Zoom 8-24x25 Black

Good product

Nikon quality is questionable these days.

These are excellent binoculars. I bought 5 other cheaper pairs and spent about as much, whilst circling around them. Yes, they have some plastic parts and may not survive being runover by your tractor. But They fit the bill for close to medium-longrange observation with focus and clarity in all daylight conditions. Learn from my mistakes, i beg you. Save your cash and just by these

Great value for your money, has a good amount of zoom although I would have given it a 5 because I just wanted more. Lightweight and super compact for travel. I used this on my trip to Antarctica and it worked great.

The product seems to be great, but as soon as I opened it, I saw a noticeable internal defect within the right lens. Unfortunately, I had to return it.The image was ok with noticeable less light coming in on the tele zoom.

Easy to focus. Amazingly good size and weight and handles well. If 24 power isn't clear, reducing it clears it to read fine print. I let it swing on my neck while bicycling, because it's loads of fun to look around at just anything. It seems durable, is great value and as good as any other on a bright day.

I purchased these to replace my 3-decades old Bausch and Lomb Legacy Zoom 8-15 x25 binoculars. These are made of lightweight but very sturdy plastic and weigh an ounce and a quarter less than my 8x25 Nikon Trailblazer waterproof binoculars, which are also made of durable plastic, as are most binoculars these days. I am hooked on the zoom aspect, which is much, much easier to control than the zoom on my old Legacy binoculars. There is very little weight around the neck, which makes these binoculars ideal for long days of bird-watching and other aspects of nature-watching, such as when one is on a hike or out at sea. While these are not waterproof, per se, they do come with eye cup covers that attach to the strap and a padded durable plastic pouch. I really do not understand other buyers’ comments about the plastic being “cheap”, after all, the purpose is to provide a highly durable and lightweight product that performs extremely well, and that is exactly what Nikon has done. I highly recommend these.

Let me start by saying I have and love my Nikon D500, which takes crystal clear pictures. The reason I reference this is because the image quality through these particular binoculars is very poor. My expectations were higher that the image quality and zoom features matched that which I have become accustomed to with the D500 camera - they are not even close.The focus wheel is sensitive, with a good range, so I am confident that anyone can adjust these binoculars to sharpen the view to a point. Even when finding the ideal focus point, the image is not perfectly clear.At the lowest zoom power setting of 8x, the small optical diameter severely restricts your field of view; perhaps if this was 40mm instead of 25mm objective lense, I may have considered keeping these binoculars.When zooming past 16x, the field of view becomes soo narrow that it is almost useless if you need to view multiple things, where each is more than a couple feet apart from the other.