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These are great for bird watching. They are easy to adjust, and the view is very bright and brilliant. They are also very lightweight. I tested using the tripod and phone adapter to take photos through the binoculars and it works great.

Love these! They were perfect for my cruise! The phone adapter worked great and I got some awesome photos of animals that were too far away for regular phone camera zoom. Excellent value! You will get the circle around photos at 1x camera zoom. But if you zoom in on your phone camera to 1.5 or 2x, the circle goes away. Both photos attached to this review were taken through the binoculars.

For a pair of binos under $80 these worked great compared to my buddy's Nikon 10-22x50 ($186). We kept swapping to see the diff. Just got back from Alaskan cruise and they were great to see wildlife on islands, great clarity in distance with no issues so far.

These are great. Birding ball games, you name it it. Well built product.

I am an astronomy nerd from way back, but left my gear behind when I moved, and have also been getting more into birding lately, especially with doing a lot more walks around Central Park and upper Manhattan since the pandemic started and seeing lots of nifty new creatures.I saw these binoculars recommended by the Manhattan Bird Alert twitter feed (among other places) and decided to treat myself. But given the price it's hardly that much of an outlay! And they are a wonderful piece of kit - comparing them to my old binoculars I had for astronomy (7x50 or 10x50 porro prisms) they are much lighter and more compact, and feel really solid: they don't feel fragile or something that you have to be fearful of carrying around. I suppose there are lighter models out there but I think these are a perfect weight - too light and the hand wobble can be problematic. They're also really well-balanced in the hand.Also the optics are outstanding for this price. Of course all optics have some limitations, and these aren't perfectly colour-corrected or 100% sharp edge-to-edge, but they are far beyond the other low-price binoculars I've owned in the past. The moon is always a challenging target for optics with the huge contrast, but you don't get swamped in reflections or chromatic aberration. I can't quite see the entire field of view with my glasses on but I can see most of it, and the twisty eye cups work really well if I take off my glasses. The focus knob is really smooth and easy to use even with gloves on.So in summary, for the price I can't imagine a more ideal pair of binoculars for casual/semi-casual use. If you spent double or more the price you could get something a bit better, but I doubt that most people would notice much difference.

I had read several guides advising spending > $100 to get quality binoculars, but I decided to try these Gosky's after reading many positive reviews. My family and I have not been disappointed.We have recently gotten into bird watching after setting out a couple feeders in our back yard, but it was hard to make out many details as the feeder was a good ways from our back window. These binoculars have the perfect balance between field of view (allowing us to easily locate the birds) and magnification. The image quality is stunning - there is no detectable distortion in proportion or color, and the focus/diopter adjustments were easy to dial in accurately.I quickly ordered a tripod adapter to attach the binoculars to our camera tripod, and that has provided a stable base for viewing and for using the included phone attachment for taking photos. Taking pictures with the phone is fun, but I've found it difficult to get a really clear image. I think this is because the phone cameras default to < 1 magnification, so you have to use the phone camera's digital zoom to even get back to the 10x magnification of the bino's, and that introduces some noise, but it's fine if you're not printing the images. If you're interested in taking quality photos you'd really need a better setup with a real camera attached.Overall, we are really pleased with the Gosky binoculars and hope to take them to the lake in our kayaks to check out the eagles, falcons, and ospreys.

I honestly wish they just sold the binocular and strap. I didn't need a cheap plastic tripod or stuff to take photos with a cell phone so I feel like those parts are a waste. It loses stars for me just for that.This is my first pair of binoculars, and I'm not sure if I'll keep them. They are clear and the eye cups are comfortable, but I think I'd like something with greater magnification. The bird feeders in my yard are ~7-8m from my window and I can see that well enough, but personally would like a little more detail than these offer. That's nothing against the product, just that I probably should have purchased 12x.

Good product, but a little heavy to carry for a backpacking trip