Zoom binoculars can magnify objects up to twenty power. This can be good and bad for the bird watcher. Learn about zoom binoculars in this free bird watching video about how to begin to bird watch.
Expert: Cary Salter
Bio: Cary Salter has been bird watching for the past twenty five years. He currently teaches many seminars on bird watching, particularly in the field of optics and binoculars.
Filmmaker: Todd Campitelli
Yeah, but for birding, they are really unnecesary, and the optics of zoom binoculars tend to be of inferior quality compared with fixed power.
nature1748 3 years ago
But they are good for animal, aircraft viewing. I use 30x zoom binoculars, they focus quite well at 30x. I can hold it still enough without tripod. It is big and heavy but that hasnt bothered me too much. I do agree that a powerful zoom on a small pocket binocular is not much good, but on a large bino it is quite impressive.
sonofthedestroyer 3 years ago
zoom binoculars are useless for birding.
nature1748 3 years ago