Bushnell Falcon 10x50 Wide Angle Binoculars (Black)

by Bushnell

Product Features

• Boasts durable design and rubberized, abrasion-resistant finish
• Porro prism and coated lenses provide sharp viewing
• 10X magnification, 50-Millimeter lens diameter, and auto focusing Porro prism
• 25-Feet close focusing distance, 27-Ounce weight
• 9-Millimeter eye relief and 5-Millimeter exit pupil, 300-Feet field of view at 1000 yards

Product Description

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Handy fold-down eyecups prevent prescription glasses and sunglasses from scratching.

Bushnell is the leading brand in high-performance binoculars, and the Falcon series offers powerful magnification at an economical price. Versatile, and ideal for stadium sports, bird-watching, hunting, and many other outdoor applications, the 10x50 model boasts a durable design and rubberized, abrasion-resistant finish. An InstaFocus lever provides smooth feedback, with just enough tension to fine-tune magnification, while a Porro prism and coated lenses provide sharp viewing. For those who wear eyeglasses, or sunglasses on bright days, clever fold-down eyecups protect your lenses from scratching.

Specifications

• 10X magnification
• 50-millimeter lens diameter
• Auto focusing Porro prism
• 25-foot close focusing distance
• 27-ounce weight
• Nine-millimeter eye relief
• Five-millimeter exit pupil
• 300-foot field of view at 1,000 yards

About Bushnell
Bushnell has been the industry leader in high-performance sports optics for over 50 years. Its guiding principle is to provide high quality, reliable, and affordable sports optics products for a wide variety of applications. Bushnell products have consistently won design and performance awards from prestigious organizations, and the company's product lines enhance the enjoyment of outdoor pursuits such as spectator sports, nature study, hunting, fishing, birding, and stargazing. The company often incorporates emerging technologies that combine leading edge design with performance innovation, which has made it one of the most recognized and reputable sports optics brands in the world.

Product Description

Features quality Bushnell« fully coated optics for sharp images at an affordable price. Features the patented InstaFocus« system for fast focus so you won't miss any of the action. Rubber armored for comfort and durability.

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Product Details

Product Manual [53kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 8.2 x 4.2 inches ; 1.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000051ZOA
• Item model number: 10 X 50 Falcon *13-3450*
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (129 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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111 of 113 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent inexpensive binocular, July 20, 2003

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Emilio J. Del Toro (East Windsor, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bushnell Falcon 10x50 Wide Angle Binoculars (Black) (Electronics)

These binoculars perform very well during daytime and are good for the occasional birdwatcher or for viewing any outdoor event. The light weight and the insta-focus make them very easy to use. I bought them for stargazing (very tight budget!) and I am very satisfied with them giving what I paid. I have been able to locate and clearly see many Messier objects (ie. M22, M13, M11, M3, M5 and the great Andromeda Galaxy M31, and many star clusters such as M39 and the coathanger) and double stars with the Falcons, and they give a nice view of the summer milky way although the view is not very bright since the Falcons are not multicoated, but for [money] you really cant ask much. Overall, excellent value. Buy the Falcons and Terence Dickinsons Nightwatch (Turn Left at Orion is another good one) and you can get into backyard astronomy ...

87 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cheaply constructed to barely do the job, August 16, 2005

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Mustafa Jamil (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bushnell Falcon 10x50 Wide Angle Binoculars (Black) (Electronics)

These binoculars cost a hair over twenty five bucks on amazon right now - you're not going to beat that deal in terms of value for money anywhere. They have decent optics.

However, don't think you're getting high-quality construction for that money. These literally disintegrated on me on a recent international trip where they were subjected to neglible abuse (they were mostly carried around in a small backpack on long hikes and sometimes tightly packed in my suitcase). The shaft that couples the two eyepieces to the focusing mechanism is held together with flimsy plastic on both ends, and one of the ends simply snapped off, leaving me with an unusable set of binoculars.

The warranty on these is laughable (you have to pay to ship these - at a cost that's well over half the cost of buying a new pair - to Bushnell where they determine whether it's a manufacturer defect and, if so, send you a repaired item in a few weeks), so my options were to buy a new pair or to try to repair these on my own. I opted for the latter.

In so doing, I took a look inside. It looks like Bushnell cut every corner possible when throwing these together. Most metal edges have been poorly milled, resulting in uneven surfaces. A white adhesive substance has unevenly and sloppily been applied inside to hold the optics assembly together. Not encouraging.

That said, I'd buy these again. Even if I burn through one of these every year due to the shoddy construction, I'd have to go a decade of doing so before I'd have spent enough to equal the cost of a well constructed pair of binoculars that gave me 10x50 magnification.

113 of 119 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bargain Binocs Get the Job Done, January 9, 2004

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Elderbear (Loma Linda, Aztlan) - See all my reviews
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I bought a pair of these on sale (from my "gold box" -- 10x50 is supposed to be the ideal for stargazing. I figured that this might come at the price of some chromatic distortion (tolerable) or difficulty focusing (intolerable). Last night was a "clear" night here in the South Bay. I live about a mile inland, on the coastal edge of Los Angeles' vast light pollution. No marine layer, and I quickly pulled the full moon into focus, then adjusted the other eye-piece. They work for me, but if my eyes get much worse ... I'll have to pass them on to somebody younger.

Enough of the moon, already. I wanna see something I don't see on a regular basis. A quick scan of Orion showed some nebulosity visible, even above city lights. They feel steady. I'm looking forward to more star time.

I didn't notice any chromatic aberation. I have only three minor complaints:

1) No tripod socket for making sure that kids can see what you want them too see. No socket was promised ... so this is not a really fair complaint.

2) Lens caps are cheap and tend to fall off. Watch out for them. It wouldn't have cost that much more to manufacture better lens caps--Bushnell ought to fix this one.

3) I would have designed the adjustable lens with a broader range of diopters for those of us who don't quite see as well as we used to.

All in all, a great pear of binocs for searching the night sky.