Orion Vista 8x42

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Orion Vista 8x42
Gives sharp, contrasty images in both day and night. Views sharp to the edge.
Focusing generally smooth. Eyepiece focusser sometimes gets a little sticky.
Lenses are fully hard multicoated and easy to clean. 5.25 mm exit pupil good
for older folks at night, but still gives good starry images. A convenient
pair to use.

Overall Rating: 9
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Orion Vista 8x42
Very nice binoculars. Quite sharp by day. By night they show a bit more
spherical aberration than I would like, but still in the acceptible range.
Excellent coatings (fully multicoated) and contrast. Very light, easy to
hold; joy to use. Nice leatherette coverings. Nice hard leather case.
Overall they are wonderful by day, and almost as nice by night.
- John B.

Overall Rating: 9
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Orion Vista 8x42
Bought a pair of these about 18 months back, for birding. The view is sharp and bright, much better than my old 7x50's. My wife loves the close focus for checking out critters on our bird feeders. Unfortunately, they have developed an annoying problem with slop in the central focus. The way this shows up is... if you focus it correctly for each eye, then bump one or other eyepiece, that eyepiece goes out of focus. This can probably be fixed by use of special tools, which i do not have. Other than this i would give these binocs a 9-10.
Bob

Overall Rating: 8
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This is an update (3/11/05) to my previous posting re the Vistas with the sloppy focuser movement. A few weeks back, my wife lent my Vistas to a friend, who then took them for an accidental swim in Seattle's Lake Union. They were returned to me half full of water, with a brief apology. I considered junking them, and replacing with a higher priced pair, but decided instead to return them to Orion for a cleanup. Just got them back yesterday.
WOW! ORION CAME THROUGH!
The eye and field lenses have been cleaned up to look like new - no smears or stains. I have not looked inside to check the prisms, but i can attest that the performance is once again top-notch - IMO the equal of my wife's Eagle Optics Rangers, but with better off-axis sharpness and less false colour (although the Vistas are *still* not waterproof =:O
Incidentally, the Orion technician also managed to tighten up the focuser slop, to the point that it is no longer noticeable.
Thanks Orion for a great job!
Bob Bennett, Maple Vly, WA
Orion Vista 8x42
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Full multi-coating including the prisms. BAK-4 prisms. Very bright view for this exit pupil, sharp image almost to the edge of the field. Easy to focus at infinity without glasses, even for people who like me are legally blind without them. Light, relatively compact, comes with a hard leather case (when was the last time you saw one of those with new binoculars?). Great general-purpose binocular.

Overall Rating: 10
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Orion Vista 8x42
I bought a pair offered through Orion's "seconds" merchandise and am quite happy with the purchase. I have four pairs of binoculars but usually chose the little Vistas as my "grab and go" glasses of choice. While not optimal for star gazing (because of their smaller objective lenses), they're very good for sweeping across wide fields of stars, the brighter of which appear as pin-point images. Perhaps "seconds" get fined-tuned by Orion techs when they're returned and before put up for sale again? The glasses also have a "quality" feel to them. I consider my pair, at least, a bargain.

Overall Rating: 9
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