Bushnell Powerview 16x50 Binocular
Bushnell PowerView binoculars are the best of both worlds, combining contemporary styling and design with traditional Bushnell quality and durability. A variety of styles and features appeals to a wide range of observers from students of nature to concertgoers. Outstanding light transmission through fully coated optics ensures bright, crisp clear viewing. The easy to hold and easy to use aspect of these binoculars also converge to make Bushnell PowerView an excellent value for the general and outdoor use. Standard-size models feature InstaFocus for fast and easy focus on a moving target.
Bushnell PowerView binoculars offer the best of both worlds, combining contemporary styling and design with traditional Bushnell quality and durability. This particular PowerView binocular offers a 16x magnification--among the most powerful in its class--and a 50mm objective diameter. The fully coated optics, meanwhile, guarantee superior light transmission and brightness, helping you see just about any target, whether you're searching for birds or trying to get a better view of the stage. And users will love the patented InstaFocus focusing system, which holds your subject in sharp focus with a touch of the fingertip. Additional features include a nonslip rubber armor housing that absorbs shock while providing a firm grip, a neck strap and a carrying case for easy transport, and 10mm of eye relief. Specifications: - Magnification: 16x
- Objective lens diameter: 50mm
- Size class: Standard
- Focus system: InstaFocus
- Prism system: Porro
- Prism glass: BK-7
- Lens coating: Multi
- Field of view @ 1,000 yards: 182 feet
- Close focus distance: 35 feet
- Exit pupil: 3.1mm
- Eye relief: 10mm
- Eyecups: Fold down
- Waterproof/fogproof: No
- Adapts to tripod: Yes
- Weight: 29 ounces
- Warranty: Limited lifetime
The Bushnell 16x50 Powerview binoculars are easy to hold and easy to use for the general and outdoor user. They allow you to view an expanse of 182 feet from 1,000 yards away. The Bushnell Powerview 16x50 comes with soft rubber covering and the patented Insta-Focus focusing system. With Insta-Focus, a touch of the fingertip is all it takes to hold your subject in sharp focus. These binoculars come with a neck strap and carrying case.
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Bushnell Powerview 16x50 Binocular Reviews
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. 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. they are very strong and you can see things very far away. its 50 mm in diameter ( wide). ( 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.
The price is right and the quality is exceptional. It is the ideal choice for shoreline viewing and mountain range viewing purposes. I learned of this product from a friend that owns a pair.
If the prisms were in alignment, I'd say these are a good value for the money. This is my second pair. I can secure the binoculars to my tripod pretty easy with the hardware I have. I do like the new 1/4" threaded screw socket. The first is abut 20 years old. 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.
It delivers all that I was expecting. The product arrived in good time and shape.
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. 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). 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 was really looking forward to getting these binoculars.
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. 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. That would lessen the chance of catastrophic damage such as these were obviously subjected to. That is where the quick focus lever could do a great job. 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. 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. 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.
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. I had owned Bushnell binoculars in the past and was very happy with them. It is a miracle if any of these binoculars get to the customer in one piece. These arrived totally broken. I won't be reordering a replacement.
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. Nitrogen is used to prevent the lenses from fogging. The left main lens housing was sheared completely off from the unit.
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. 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. Looking at them, I found they were constructed using cheap plastic for the main body.
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. The lever focus would be really nice for finer focusing after you have zeroed in on the subject. 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.
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