Barska X-trail 15x70 Binocularw/Tripod Adapter & Tripod

 (9 customer reviews)

The thread pitch on the focuser is to high so even very light pressure on the eye pieces causes them to rack back in; thus if you let your eyes or glasses touch the eyepieces you need to hold onto the focusing knob. Other than this the closest I could get them to focus was about 3X the specified close fucos distance. Otherwise very little color fringing and good sharpness all the way to the edge of field. Eye relief is nice I can get almost the whole FOV while wearing glasses. and when locked the tabletop tripod is acually quite solid

VERY disappointing to see such an easily corrected mistake in the focuser of a nice pair of binoculars with incredible "bang for the buck"

I ordered these binoculars to learn more about the sky. Sure these binoculars are big and impressive looking but that is about the extent of their worth. I ordered the first pair and they provided me with the biggest non-alcohol induced headache I've ever experienced. The images were miles off and when my brain tried to merge them I felt like I just rode space mountain 7 times. I boxed them up and due to Amazon's convenient return policy, I sent them back for a refund.

The next day, against better judgement, I thought that maybe I just had gotten a bad pair and again decided to order this same model. Out of the box, I didn't even have to look through them to see a defect as the part of the plastic body surrounding the eyepiece was cracked. I still gave it the benefit of the doubt and waited until the stars came out only to learn that Jupiter apparently has a twin as does its moons. I had my wife verify this as I thought I was crazy. These were boxed up and sent back for a...Read more

I purchased these after some research hoping for a good pair of bino's to go along with my scope. I have to say, they've exceeded my expectations. I use them for star-gazing and the views are truly wonderful. As others have noted, they're heavy. However, using a good camara tripod makes this not a problem.

Some people have complained about the collimation on the Celestrons, but mine came just about perfect out of the box. My only real complaint is that the tripod adapter is a bit flimsy. There are a few ways to take care of this, but simply filling the open cavities on it with epoxy will pretty much take care of any problems.That'll cost you about $4 in epoxy and 15 minutes of your time.

Again, these are really sweet bino's. I'm using them more than my scope now days. They're so handy and the viewing size really makes a difference.

I know there are better one's available out there, but for this price, you just can't go wrong.