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The Bushnell 10×50 wide-angle PowerView binoculars combine contemporary styling and design with traditional Bushnell quality and durability. They are easy to use and feature Porro prisms. They offer 10x magnification and a field of view of 341 feet at 1,000 yards. Insta-Focus enables you to focus on your desired object with the single touch of your finger. Black rubber armoring ensures that these binoculars can sustain active use. Bushnell’s 10×50 wide-angle PowerView binoculars include a carrying case and a neck strap for convenience and comfort on the go. more info
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Love them!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I purchased these binoculars, for additional power, have old 7×35 with great lenses, sharp view, so I chose these per reviews combined with price. Great buy.
Decent Binocular
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I had bought this bushnell binocular mainly for star gazing. It didn’t help me that much on that. May be I had higher expectations on this item, since I’m a novice. I was expecting the order of magnification like I saw in TV cameras when they zoom in on moon during sports telecasts. But this item is still worth for the money. I could use this to see moon and Mars so far with decent magnification.
Only thing to make sure is hold a steady hand when using or use a tripod.
Focus tab is not really a hinder as others in the review had mentioned.
Great Buy!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I purchased this for my husband and it is well worth the money. I will probably be purchasing a couple more. If anyone is looking for a great pair of Binoculars, look no further.
Impressive
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
These binoculars were a good deal for the money and had the right specs. so I decided to get them. But, we were still surprised with how good they were when they arrived. We would recommend them to anyone interested in both astronomy and terestrial viewing.
Good binoculars!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Very good binoculars and reasonably priced. Focus is easy to work with. Some people complain about the plastic straps. It looks like they replaced them as mine came with cloth straps which are O.K.
Great value, crisp optics
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I purchased this 16×50 model at Walmart for $59. The optics are crisp and clear. Comes with a storage bag/case and a good quality braided nylon neck strap. I read in another review that the neck strap used to be a cheap plastic material- they’ve improved on that strap. This model is an exceptional value for the money. The high mag power is best suited for distance viewing, and as a substitute for a spotting scope for targets, etc.
Bad for Birding – Make me dizzy
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I purchased these with the intent of using for bird watching but they literally make me feel dizzy and green. No matter what I try, they just don’t seem to provide a clear, distinct view. Seem abnormally darker than others I’ve used and never give a crisp clear view. On the other hand, they are by far more ergonomic than the old ones I owned, feel great, solid, nice set…but wish I’d kept my 30 year old set instead. Not good for bird watching. Can’t begin to imagine for sports. Perhaps its my eyes? Unsure but they don’t compare to 30 year old set.
Flimsy Product
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I was really looking forward to getting these binoculars. I had owned Bushnell binoculars in the past and was very happy with them.
These arrived totally broken.
The left main lens housing was sheared completely off from the unit.
Looking at them, I found they were constructed using cheap plastic for the main body. The lens housings are screwed into the body, but the plastic is so fragile that apparently when they were dropped sometime during the shipping process the plastic shattered.
I probably could have Super-glued the housing back on but then they would have been subject to fogging since when the housing broke off the Nitrogen that is injected into the housing escaped. Nitrogen is used to prevent the lenses from fogging.
While checking out the remainder of the unit, I worked with the quick focus lever and found that it didn’t hold focus very well either. I would like to see a unit that has a dial focus with a lever fine focus so that the major focus point is stable. The lever focus would be really nice for finer focusing after you have zeroed in on the subject. I would have used them for viewing auto racing for the most part, so once you get the major focus point clear, a lever focus for fine focusing would be great for viewing a moving target like race cars that can vary in distance by up to 1/4 of a mile closer or further than the main focus point as the cars travel around the track. That is where the quick focus lever could do a great job. But to use it for the entire focus field is too much and it isn’t fine enough since a tiny bump in the wrong direction can cause you to lose sight of your target object entirely.
I also agree that the design of the focus bar is poor in that you have to use both hands to focus since you can only push down. Either that or if you have a long finger you can reach across the center and push down on the other side of the bar as well.
I won’t be reordering a replacement. Instead I will look for binoculars that have a more durable housing since using binoculars subjects them to being “knocked around” and if the material used by Bushnell shatters so easily, they are not going to last very long.
So my advice to anyone who owns these particular binoculars is to protect them from being dropped or even bumped into trees, etc very hard since the housing is brittle and will shatter. If you use them in Winter, they will be even more brittle and the housing will shatter even more easily than in warm weather like we have now.
I would also advise Bushnell to change their packaging since if they make a product that is this fragile they should pack it in thicker shock absorbing materials than they currently do since what they use wouldn’t protect a product a fraction of the weight and bulk of this product. That would lessen the chance of catastrophic damage such as these were obviously subjected to.
My cell phone, which weighs 3.5 ounces came in a corrugated box with a total weight of one pound with 10 ounces of that being the box and packing materials (the charger weighs about 2 oz).
Yet these binoculars that weigh 12 TIMES as much as my cell phone, with optics that are far more vulnerable to damage from the shocks of shipping and handling than a cell phone have only a couple of ounces of material to protect them from damage and came in a box no sturdier than a cereal box. It is a miracle if any of these binoculars get to the customer in one piece!
nephews liked
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
We gave these to our 13 year old nephews, who camp a lot, for Christmas. They had been wanting some decent binoculars and they both really liked them. One commented after looking through these that they were “friggin awesome”. They used them that night to look at the moon and the stars and were impressed.
Nice pair of binoculars!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This pair of binoculars has the power of larger, more expensive models in a compact set. Came with a case. Arrived quickly.
Very nice!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this for my husband as a gift. He enjoys it very much. The resolution is clear, and it’s easy to adjust while viewing. Well made yet lightweight. Good product.
Decent Binoculars, not good for birding
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I bought these binoculars to watch the birds in my backyard but failed to do sufficient pre-sale research. Their nearest focus point is probably 50ft and their magnification is generally higher than you would want. So they are ill suited for my intended use, but that is my fault, not Bushnells.
For viewing things further away they are fine. They seem rugged and very solid, though I haven’t done much with them. I like the rubberized housing. The one general complaint I have is that the rocker focus mechanism has too much give in it. You can rock it for a few degrees before it actually starts doing any focusing.
Great Product for a Good Price
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The binoculars were purchsed as a gift for my wife. She was thrilled with the quality of the optics, and the ease in which she can focus the binocluars, which is important to her bird watching hobby.Bushnell Powerview 16×50 Binocular
Bushnell Powerview Binoculars
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
We enjoyed our binoculars in Florida these past two weeks. They work extremely well. Great product.
Try it, You’ll like it!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I purchased this set of binoculars for may husband as a gift and he loves them. They are easy to manage in using them. He can see the birds, he so dearly loves and can identify them readily. I use them also. Good buy!
Bushnell Binoculars
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The product arrived in good time and shape. It delivers all that I was expecting.
Great product, flimsy attachments
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Love the binoculars just like everyone else. Only complaint is the flimsy attachments. The neck strap is impossible to attach and is obviously a piece of junk anyway so don’t bother. I find it annoying that the lens covers aren’t connected in some way. They pop off very easily. Just seems to me like something that could easily be prevented with better design. All things considered, these are really minor complaints. The purpose is to get great binoculars for a great price, and that I did. I would still highly recommend them.
bushnell 16X50
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
very good value. sharp images as long as you brace your arms; 16X also magnifies the shakiness 16 times! probably not as good as leupold or swarovsky, but at under $100 a little forgiveness is justified. a great item to have handy when traveling.
Bushnell Binocs…Great Product
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I purchased this binocs for a tiger safari in India and am amazed by the quality of this product. Certainly recommended and a great value for price. AAAAAAA plus quality.
Excellent product.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The Bushnell binoculars are fantastic. It’s amazing what you can see with them and a more than reasonable price.
Bushnell Powerview Binocular
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I learned of this product from a friend that owns a pair. It is the ideal choice for shoreline viewing and mountain range viewing purposes. The price is right and the quality is exceptional.
Very Pleased
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought these for my husband to hunt with. He is very pleased with them.
Info
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The actual dimnetions of this product are 7″ long and 7″ wide ( at the end of the product- the part that we hold to our eyes is not quite as wide and fit to the eyes.
These are VERY strong binoculars, they are 16x the magnification, the 50 ( the other #) is simply the size of the front lens.. its 50 mm in diameter ( wide)… they are very strong and you can see things very far away. If you need a pair for a concert or a football game or something, then I believe these would be way to powerful and large. ( also I read somewhere, and I think its true that anything over 10x the magnification ( these are 16x) that you should use a tripod, since its too hard to see properly, since it needs to be compltely still.
Bushnell 16×50
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
This is my second pair. The first is abut 20 years old. I do like the new 1/4″ threaded screw socket. I can secure the binoculars to my tripod pretty easy with the hardware I have. The downside to these binos is that the prisms seems to be slightly out of alignment…which was the problem with my old binos although they were far worse. If the prisms were in alignment, I’d say these are a good value for the money.
Good For The Money
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
When you’re getting a pair of 16×50 binoculars at this price-point, it would probably be harsh of me to criticize them too hard, so long as I can see through them effectively
They’re heavy – but that’s what I expected, so no complaints there.
The strap that comes with these is made of nasty thick plastic – a kind of strap that I haven’t seen since I got a cheap SLR in the early 1980s. Completely pointless (unusable in my opinion), and the first thing I would advise is to go buy the strap/support system of your choice and don’t relay on the nasty accessory that comes with.
The binoculars come with lens caps on. I haven’t figure out if they intend you to use them all the time to protect the lenses, or if they’re just for show in the box. The large caps are fine, but the small ones do not stay attached, so don’t rely on them to protect.
In use, the quick focus mechanism is actually very effective but definitely requires two hands to operate as it’s a little stiff (and as a lever, you have to be able to press down on either side). I guess few people would be operating something this heavy with one hand, but it does mean that both hands are under tension as you have to have fingers on the focus mechanism.
Optically, these are absolutely built to the price. Definite chromatic aberration here giving a nice blue/yellow fringe, especially at longer distances. But for the price, I kind of expected that. Diopter correction works well.
Overall, a great product for the price. I would possibly recommend looking at spending a little more to get some better optics, but really for this money it’s a great way to get this much magnification.