Lidl Rocktrail Binoculars

[mark22c]

to be honest mate tasco are a pretty bad name in optics these days. never used to be that way years back though.
i take it the bins your on about are the compact roof prism design without phase coatings? first pair i bought years ago were tasco 12x25 roof prism compacts with ruby coated lenses. i paid about £50 for em... i too thought they were the mutz nutz till a friend let me peer through an old set of 8x30 porro's he had... started my whole interest in binoculars as a collector.
yes they were the russian ones i mentioned earlier.

[ganp]

A couple of years ago I bought some 10 x 50 Bresser bino's from Lidl for about £10.

I got them just to keep in the car, not wanting to risk my Leitz 8 x 20's on holiday with young children and sand etc.

There was not as much difference between the Bressers and the Leitz as I thought there would be, although differences in the colour saturation and flare were quite marked when quickly swapping from one to the other.

When the Bressers are tripod mounted, sharpness is very good with little fall off at the edges.

At this price you shouldn't expect much but the overall optical performance is extremely good for the money.


Colin.

[mark22c]

those bresser 10x50's were very popular on another astronomy forum i used to frequent. i bought a few pairs of them and they are not bad, quite sharp and clear and for a tenner great. recommended them all the time for those on a budget.
you had to sort through a few to find a good pair though. they are an exception though. later versions sold last year were pants with just to many faults and i couldnt recommend them now.

[craig9mm]

hi folks

anyone seen or bought one of the above.
30 to 230 'ish zoom £70,theres still some left near me ,Im waiting to see if they get reduced
I know a grand plus for anything decent but sometimes you always go for a reduction!!!!

[mark22c]

i wouldnt bother, seriously they'll be very disappointing.

[JsE.]

I got some for the hell of it to see if they where any good..

Yes, they where badly columnated but with a bit of research I found the adjustment screws and had a play. I managed to get them better but was still dissapointed, which for the cost and build was a crying shame as they would have made a sound investment if everything hadn't been in stereo

[mark22c]

i did buy a pair of 10-60x50 zoom binoculars years ago when i didn't know any better. turns out they didn't magnify anything like 60x... more like 9x - 15x, i only noticed this after buying a pair of fixed mag 15x70 bins. the over whelming feeling i had with the first was at any thing higher than the lowest setting they were very dim and hazy, also the field of view was very narrow compared to a fixed power set of 10x50 bins i also later bought from lidls but the main problem was the alignment shifted every time i zoomed in or out and always got headaches looking through them because of it. took them to bits in a fit of rage trying to get the zoom bit out and make them fixed power 10x none of the internal lenses had anti reflective coatings and no wonder the alignment was all over the place the zoom lenses rattled about in there plastic holders.

the lidles 10x50's were ok i thought when i first bought them and only £9.99 but they just dont compare to the 8x42's i use now which have better low light performance clearer sharper image are water proof so they dont fog up inside when you bring them in from the cold or steam up inside from sweat under your coat they are also perfectly collumated and have stayed that way for years despite the odd knock the anti reflective coatings on them are fantastic and give excellent contrast and colour and im pretty sure with luck i'll still be using them in 20 years or more.

i guess if your going to be using them a lot its worth splashing out on a good pair.
i got well into bird watching for a while and wanted the swaro 8.5x42 el's costing £1000 but settled for my opticron imagics at £369 and put the savings towards a good spotting scope, though i got lucky with a second hand meopta scope with fixed 25x and 40x eyepieces for £45!!!!!!

anyways what ever you get enjoy them... saying that you cant go far wrong with a set of 8x42's for hunting and for phenomenal low light performance 7x50's if you can find a good set.

[Clive55]

I wouldn't touch soon binoculars their terrible as are the huge models .
I bought a pair of 20x80s about 20 yes ago they were expensive and bloody hopeless. If your on a budget the 8x50 hawked are superb I use a pair of 8x56 hawke Pro stalk now discontinued for the same speck endurance models their amazing at low light 👍