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HomeWild Bird SuppliesBinocularsVivitar 7 x 50 Binoculars |
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13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 BAD QUALITY Aug 28, 2006
By Tom N.
Purchased because of very low price and 7x50 spec. I didn't expect great quality at this price, but did expect them to be useable. First one produced double vision. Took it back to Walgreens for another. The 2nd one has single vision but focus was so poor that I couldn't read a small distant sign that was absolutely clear with my other brand (low cost) 7x50.
Vivitar should be ashamed of themselves for selling such low grade trash. If you are tempted to buy these, go to a store where you can test a few and pick the best one.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Truly educational, but not in the way they intended Nov 22, 2007
By black thumb
Oh man, these are trash. I picked up a pair at the local drugstore on a radical discount, just to see. They were so far out of alignment that even when I could get the images to merge, convex objects looked concave. Guaranteed to induce headaches. Then there's the mushy focusing, and the chromatic aberration on bright objects. Finally, the view is noticeably dimmer than in my 7x35s, which shouldn't happen with double the light-gathering area on the objective lenses (pi*35*35=3846 square mm; pi*50*50=7850 square mm). My guess is that the manufacturer should have passed on the "UV coating" and added some coatings to enhance light transmission, like you find on decent binoculars. If they'd done that, though, these would sell for more than the cost of a movie ticket (hint: don't pay any more than that for them!).
So I disassembled one side. Now I have a 7x50 monocular with all of the problems listed above except the misalignment, plus a cheap eyepiece for my travel telescope, two cool prisms to play with, and one lousy lens that I have no idea what to do with. So as a bag of parts to tinker with, this was a good buy *at the ridiculous discount I got*, but at anything more than that, or as a functional piece of optics that you can use for more than two minutes without getting a migraine, these should be avoided.
15 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Poor Quality Control Sep 23, 2005
By J. Levenson
I purchased and returned this product twice and then gave up and got a refund. In my opinion, either the product is defective or is packaged poorly. Both times the binoculars exhibited double vision. I was surprised that a Vivitar product would perform so poorly.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
didn't know what bad binocs were Aug 08, 2007
By Chen Sun
"WebAndNet.com"
didn't know what bad binocs were, until I tried these. My 8x42 has a far wider view. This 7x50 is very difficult to use for me due to collimation issues. Color problems and very small views. Someone might be able to find its $10 Walgreens price valuable.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
horrible quality Sep 07, 2008
By Yasha
My 8 year old son got this product as a present from a friend for his birthday. While they look very impressive at a first glance, I have never seen and could not have imagined that binoculars can be as bad in both material quality and construction design. We've owned this for less than a day and the plastic frame has already got two small cracks in it - even though they have not been dropped and were handled VERY carefully. This is the worst quality plastic normally reserved for cheap chinese toys. Furthermore, both eyepieces are fixed via a loose screw in the middle and their wobble disrupts focus first and collinearity second. No adjustment of the screw helps since eyepieces are bigger diameter than the tubes they're fit on anyways. The focus adjustment is not smooth and when I try to adjust the single eyepiece focus, the eyepiece just unscrews and falls out.
Bacically, DON'T EVER BUY THESE BINOCULARS!!! They're not a bargain but a waste of your money.
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