Magic, new neighbour just moved in

How to collimate binoculars http://www.oberwerk.com/support/collimate.htm

Collimating: (optics) adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)

How to collimate binoculars http://www.oberwerk.com/support/collimate.htm

£3.94 for one.

£14.94 for three?

I bought one. For under £4 it's the price of a pair of toy binoculars so can't complain really.

I googled and found the normal price, which is £10.95
http://www.ukhobbystore.co.uk/binoculars/214-10x50-basic-black-binoculars.html

People are selling these for anything between £15.99 and £30 on ebay (search ebay for "UKHobbyStore Binoculars").

So a good price if they can be "collimated" (is that even a word? :smiley: ) to work properly!

I just hope when they say they are factory seconds that they don't come with more problems?

Magic, new neighbour just moved in

I guess its down to postage & weight?

every day's a schoolday

As the same seller is also selling these as non faulty @ £11.75, my best guess would be they have already been through the stock, adjusted the ones they can and are selling them full price.

Anyone else ever collimated a set of binoculars? I have, following the instructions posted by Powyswales. Whether it is possible with these ones relies on two things. Firstly, whether there are actually collimation screws. Supercheap bins just have the prisms glued in place and can't be adjusted. Secondly, if the prisms are mounted on adjusters, can you actually get to them without wrecking the bins? Lots have the coating fastened on firmly and it's not possible to peel back gently to reach the screws. If they are, then you're, well, screwed.....

Ordered thanks

Many thanks, I've 2 pairs that need collimating (surprisingly a pair of 15 x 70 Celestrons) so if anything from this deal I got the link!

Heat for the price.

Ordered 10, missus loves birdwatching.
And I'm in the clear, birthday, Christmas, and anniversary for the next 3 years!!

No he means collimating, this is an offset in manufacture or transport and something that won't fix itself.

If there's a manufacturing fault you could find that even after adjustment they still won't collimate :confused:

Or give them to the kids to play with.

I've no tripod to hold them steady and why I haven't tried to collimate them. I've a small telescope but I prefer bins, they are so much handier.

Optics have improved massively over the years and prices have dropped significantly. If I didn't already own a pair of 10x50's, I'd be all over this deal like a rash.

As Powes says, even as a science project to dismantle and make a telescope these would be great to give to a kid.

Sometimes binoculars can't be collimated, as previously mentioned. This is all to common with recently made cheap models. Sometimes you can do it internally either with set screws or shims. Other models collimate at the objective lenses with rings.

These tit watchers better work!

Thanks OP

Ordered, if they end up not being adjustable to properly function I will ask for refund.

Hoping for the best though :smile:

Just got these and OMG, they are the worst thing I have ever spent my money on.

Terrible quality view and one of the top lenses broke off in my hand while I was fiddling with it. The plastics too thin to be glued.
Box of bits stuff

​Yep, I agree. They are currently sitting at the bottom of my wheelie bin.

I've used all the adjusting screws and nothing will get these fecking binoculars to work :man:

BTW, these are the adjusting screws if you want to mess around with them.
N.B. You should be able to peel up the edge of the plastic to get at them - I pulled all the plastic off to find them.
There are two on each side

Anyone one know when the moon is next going to be a few hundred yards away? :confused::smile:

Yeth. :neutral_face:

Anybody tried undoing the philips screws on the end covers? They seem to be faux and just rip.

Got to the adjusting screws now thanks to "dewonderful's" photo, so now to try and turn them whilst viewing.

I can understand why the seller didn't want to collimate them :disappointed:

Binned the bins - kept the bag - dire quality

Ordered 3 pairs, figuring that maybe 1 in 3 would be OK right? All are exactly the same - rubbish. The image above is my Photoshop rendition of what I see - strange green hue, lots of ghosting, and one lens is very obscured by something inside? The bit that you can see is in focus, but the surrounding stuff makes your eyes bleed. AVOID!

Agree, terrible. Do not buy!

Completely agree - absolute rubbish.

Just got ours they're not that far out, but....

They have a tint on the image
The image is poor
The left lens snapped off when adjusting
There was a piece of plastic across the view of the right lens (you can unscrew the lenses and remove bits like that)

Utter rubbish

Utter rubbish as has been said. Dont work. Cost more to get your money back but the seller should be kicked off here and off Ebay. Impossible to focus. Strange hues. Grrrrrrrr should have known. Not fit for purpose intended.

Think I might just leave these somewhere like on Public Transport. Never thought I could be so evil.

I got a well-collimated set, but, damn, these are the worst binoculars I have ever seen! They have a fake red coating that blocks red/yellow light so you get an image that is dark and blue/green. And of course to add to that the image besides bluish, is not clear either. Oh, and the field of view is ridiculous, it is like looking through a tunnel. A dark, blurry tunnel.