Image stabilised binoculars

They are fabulous.
I have 12x36.
Note, the imagine stabilising eliminates shakes, but not so much rolling boats - still fabulous though, and you can use more magnification than normal.
 
Mine are now 17 yrs old and in perfect working order. They are brilliant but for some reason a few people don't get on with them. Because they are a bit bulky I use lithium batteries to make them lighter and extend their life. The only failure I have had is that the zip on the case has come unstitched. Choose a size and price that suits you, and carry a pair of basic binos on board for when it might be wet.
 
Depending on your budget, check out the Fujinon offerings. They use a different stabilization mechanism which can cope with far more movement than the Canon system, i.e. boat movements not just 'vibration' type movements. No experience, but just from what I've read and various reviews when I was looking a while back.
 
As others have said, they are the dog's doodahs. Had mine for nearly 20 years. They were less than half the price when I got mine.

You'd think with all the digital image stabilization technology for cameras and phones that costs buttons and is now pretty much standard someone would come up with something similar and much cheaper for binoculars.
 
AngusMcDoon said:
As others have said, they are the dog's doodahs. Had mine for nearly 20 years. They were less than half the price when I got mine.

You'd think with all the digital image stabilization technology for cameras and phones that costs buttons and is now pretty much standard someone would come up with something similar and much cheaper for binoculars.
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I assume that the image stabilization in digital cameras is done via image processing - effectively offsetting the pixels between the image sensor and the screen to compensate for movement. We still expect binoculars to be purely optical things and the image stabilization is done by moving the lenses in real time - much more difficult. I guess we could build binoculars that couple a video camera to a display screen, but that is not what the market wants.
 
maby said:
I assume that the image stabilization in digital cameras is done via image processing - effectively offsetting the pixels between the image sensor and the screen to compensate for movement. We still expect binoculars to be purely optical things and the image stabilization is done by moving the lenses in real time - much more difficult. I guess we could build binoculars that couple a video camera to a display screen, but that is not what the market wants.
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Processing the image used to be done on camcorders such as my mate's old Sony. Although it works well, it involves discarding part of the image and therefore not making use of the quality available. Accoding to my other old mate Mr Wiki, cameras stabilise the image either by varying the optical path or by moving the sensor. Apparently some cameras now do both together. I imagine that the components are much lighter and smaller than those on binoculars, which is why this can be incorporated into quite small cameras.
 
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