m. to go on a game drive in a safari truck hoping to view the ‘big five’ in the creeping light of dawn – that’s when ED glass comes into its own.

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If you want to spend some time studying things, like the moons of Jupiter (as an example), you need to support the binoculars. It goes without saying that the Celestron Nature DX ED 12x50 also features fully multi-coated optics to get rid of reflections and to maximize the light that comes through its 50mm objective lenses.

While primarily ideal for bringing distant objects closer, these binoculars can focus sharply on objects just 2m/6. Nature DX ED delivers edge-to-edge sharpness with excellent colour correction and razor-sharp images. That makes them just as ideal for wildlife, particularly since they also have a close focus of just 2m/6. Today, our world-class team of optical and electronic engineers continues to push the boundaries of technology. However, the major upgrade that you're paying extra for here is the extra low dispersion ‘ED' glass, which gets rid of chromatic aberration/colour fringing.The Nature DX ED 12x50 model offers 12x magnification, perfect for up-close views of distant subjects. Whats more, the binocular is fully waterproof and filled with dry nitrogen gas to prevent internal fogging of lenses. Celestron’s award-winning Nature DX binocular gets a major upgrade with the addition of ED objective lenses.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The Skymaster 12x60 or Skymaster Pro 20x80 binoculars may be ideal for general purpose observation as well as pointing upwards to the night sky for a clearer view of the Moon and the constellations. I had 12x50 in a very similar Bar and Stroud Sierra and sold it; never found this size to be as good as the smaller sizes.The Celestron Nature DX ED 12x50 uses a roof prism design whose primary advantage is a space-efficient, more portable design. Celestrons high quality ED glass delivers visibly brighter, sharper images compared to non-ED binoculars.

When reading about binoculars, you'll hear a lot about 'multi-coatings,' which is pretty meaningless. Their roof prism design is how the latter is achieved, with the simple tubes-plus-hinge design making them exceptionally narrow when folded up. With phase-coated BaK-4 prisms and fully multi-coated optics, Nature DX reveals image detail you won’t find with other entry-level binoculars.As your choice leads you to bigger and bigger sizes, you might consider saving half the cost and weight, close one eye and choose a spotting scope, or an astro-telescope instead.