Amazon.com Product Review
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
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(70 customer reviews) 275 of 282 people found the following review helpful
most bang for the buck,
January 10, 2003 By A Customer
This review is from: Bushnell Powerview 16x50 Binocular (Sports)
Great binoculars, got them for christmas and I've been exploring the moon, the Pleiades (I can see more than 50 stars in that cluster alone (barely 6 without the binoculars). Can see Mars, Jupiter and even its moons. I can read newspaper headlines from 50 yards away and car's licenseplate from 400-500 yards away.
I would like even more magnification for what I like to do (star gazing and nature watching), but there just isn't anything out there for a price anywhere close to what I paid for these ... at Walmart) that has this magnification and is as compact and easy to cary.
ONE MAJOR THING TO WATCH OUT - the strap is a piece of junk and it can come undone while you're carrying them. It happened to me and they dropped and got damaged. I'm getting another pair and putting my on my own strap (a sturdier one).
WARNING #2 - this is not for people with unsteady hands (I don't have that problem), you can however mount them on a tripod, which I did and it works great.
97 of 100 people found the following review helpful
I Am quite Impressed with these binoculars.,
June 19, 2000 By A Customer
This review is from: Bushnell Powerview 16x50 Binocular (Sports)
Theses binoculars are quite impressive. When I bought them I was expecting something heavier for the size, but these are a lot lighter than the one I owned before. The magnification - WOW - I have been using binoculars for about six years, and the magnification on this one is one of the best I've seen so far. Even with the outstanding 16x magnification its possible to get a good 160 yards of foucust field of veiw. I never had a problem with the lenses fogging up on my hunting trips, for all of you who know how bugative that can be. I give these binoculars five stars because even whith the impressive view, ther is a very affordable price tag.
46 of 49 people found the following review helpful
They're OK,
April 5, 2005 Steve - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bushnell Powerview 16x50 Binocular (Sports)
I gave it only 3 stars because the focus is just a marketing gimmick that creates a cheap focusing mechanism. A decent traditional wheel for focusing is superior. You can't easily get a good focus, pressing your eyes against the eyepiece can force them out of focus, and it's easy to bump the rocker bar. At 16x power, you have to carefully adjust focus and a rocker bar is an awful design. You have to use both hands to focus: you can press down on one side of the rocker bar, but not up, so to go in and out of focus to get good sharpness, you have to press down with one hand's finger and then press down with the other hand's finger. The rocker bar is terrible idea, especially for 16x! To make matter's worse, there is a fair amount of play in the rocker bar. The rocker bar seems to be the limiting factor on short distances. 40 feet seemed to be the shortest distance they would focus. Stars come into focus well before the limit of the long-distance focus is reached, possibly...Read more
