Minox 8x25 Macroscope

by Minox

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 3 x 2 inches ; 5.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000K2D7H6
• Item model number: 62206
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,576 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
  • #92 in Camera & Photo > Binoculars, Telescopes & Optics > Monoculars
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 28, 2005

Product Description

Color: Black

With this powerful mini-telescope with superb macro everything is clear.. Innovative and showing all the classic technical capabilities of the MINOX company is the best way to describe the MINOX Macroscope. This unique compact miniature telescope, measuring just 92 x 57 x 44 mm that fits neatly into the palm of the hand, gives the user not only high optical performance but an extremely close-focus distance of only 35 cm.In combination with the 8x magnification, the MINOX MS 8x25 Macroscope allows a close-up detailed study of all kinds of subjects and objects, ensuring that the user can even observe wildlife and insects in great detail at close range without disturbing them. Enter the world of macro with a highly portable and compact mini-telescope! The short and compact telescope body, designed by Volkswagen-Design, is destined to meet many other demands put on it also. With a field of view of more than 114m, the compact MINOX Macroscope is just at home being used as a normal telescope, just as you would a full sized scope. Viewing a historical tower on a sight-seeing trip or big events in a stadium or concert hall, the new compact Macroscope is ideal. It also has the added advantage of being handy and easy to use for partially sighted people. MINOX have made this technically possible due to the extremely short and compact build of the MS 8x25 and the clever use of Porro prisms which by their very nature provide naturally high light transmissi

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One thing short of perfect., July 10, 2009

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Ross A. Brunetti "RB" (Santa Maria, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Minox 8x25 Macroscope (Electronics)

I've no problems with function and handling of the Macroscope, and the optics are what you'd expect from a quality roof prism unit...except for one thing. Somewhere in the optics path is a serious off-axis reflection source, a ghost image, so unless you have your eye precisely dead center, there's a nasty off axis ghosting. When you have your eye right on the center, the image is fine. Just a bit off axis, and the stray light ruins everything. So, you have to practice using it. When you get your eye on axis, this is a fine optical device.

I'm addicted to close focus monoculars. The switch from watching deer to birds to bees in flowers to ants and critters in pond algae is irreplaceable. The Brunton Macroscope's the best, but bulky. Some day, perhaps, some manufacturer is going to create a close-focus, image stabilized ,camera mountable monocular and make me very happy.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Quality Monocular, October 6, 2007

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Kodiak (Bondurant, WY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Minox 8x25 Macroscope (Electronics)

The Minox 8X25 is a great tool with very decent light capturing ability allowing good use in early morning and late evening. It is lightweight enough for me to carry frequently on mountain excursions. I found it easy to focus and I like its resistance to weather. The small stuffsack that comes with it is a little fumbly and really doesn't readily protect the entire unit quite as well as it could. If I could make one improvement, it would be to have removeable lense protectors. All in all, this is an excellent tool for me and is worth the extra expense compared to cheaper models. One thing to remember, .. a monocular is neither a set of binoculars nor a spotting scope and is more of a special use tool - lightweight compromise for telescopic viewing.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not even close, July 5, 2007

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S. Mason (Indyucky - USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Minox 8x25 Macroscope (Electronics)

I like to keep a small monocular in my truck for the times I do not have binoculars with me. I have tried several small and MUCH less expensive models over time and was never very pleased with them. I knew I was buying on the low end, and therefore getting low end performance.

I recently decided to go ahead and spend the money and get a good one. Knowing Minox cameras and other optics I figured that even though this was more than I wanted to spend even for a good one, at least I could put my quest to an end.

Not even close.

Nicely packaged and light enough, but slow and difficult to focus and sharpness / contrast was none to only MODERATELY better than the $40 Bushnell model I am currently using.

If I did not know the prices or the manufacturers and was given these and my Bushnell to test, and was then told that these were ... let's say... $10 more than the Bushnell... I would buy the Bushnell.

This is NOT an endorsement for my cheap Bushnell, as they are not great. It is just that these are only marginally better clarity, brightness, and NO better contrast, for about 4 times the price.

As for the macro capability, yes it does focus closer than the others I have used, but still with less than stellar clarity in any light. In anything other than bright direct sunlight it was difficult to use.

Being from Minox, I was VERY surprised.

Thanks to Amazon's return policy I was able to return them very easily.

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