Product Description

DCF SP 8 x 43

• Use your binocular in the most extreme weather conditions. The DCF SP is housed in a nitrogen-filled magnesium-ally waterproof body (JIS Class 6) and protected with full-body rubber housing.
  
• View your subjects with exceptional image quality and close focusing with edge-to-edge sharpness with inner-focus optical design incorporating hybrid aspherical eyepiece lenses, high-resolution phase-coated roof prisms, hydrophobic coating on exposed objective and eyepiece lenses, and multi-coated optical elements
  
• Enjoy fatigue-free viewing even during extended observations with long eye relief and lightweight design
  
• Keep your diopter settings locked with a diopter adjuster with lock mechanism
  
• Enjoy perfect eye relief with or without glasses with 4-stop helicoids-type eyepiece rings.
  
• Focus on nearby subjects with an extra-short minimum focusing distance
  
• The Pentax DCF SP series comes with a limited lifetime warranty

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6446 in Camera & Photo
• Color: Dark Green
• Brand: Pentax
• Model: 62615
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 5.70" h x 2.00" w x 5.00" l, .69 pounds

Features

• Nitrogen-filled magnesium-alloy waterproof body (JIS Class 6) and protected with a full-body rubber housing
• Exceptional image quality and close focusing with edge-to-edge sharpness
• Inner-focus optical design incorporating hybrid aspherical eyepiece lenses
• High-resolution phase-coated roof prisms
• Scratch-resistant hydrophobic coating on exposed objective and eyepiece lenses, and multi-coated optical elements

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

39 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
Best available birding binocular for the price
By Sharon Moskowitz
I love, love, love this binocular. It's waterproof, fogproof, rugged, well-balanced, and easy to handle (I can hold it one-handed and still adjust the focus easily). I'm rough on equipment, but haven't managed to do any damage to it despite constant use under some pretty yucky conditions (tossing in the car, taking out in heavy rainstorms, dangling from the backpack on hikes, etc.)

No problem with or without glasses--the eyecups have nice, firm intermediate settings between the plain "in" and "out" options of most binoculars.

The image quality is fantastic, even in dim dusk or dawn light. IMO, you can't do better in roof prism binoculars until you get up into the megabuck Swarovski range, and even given the slight image quality improvement (for two or three times the price), I'd still prefer the Pentax DCF for its handling and quick focus.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Great, versatile binoculars for the price
By MadScience
I bought these as a backup pair to keep in the car. I've been birding for 20+ years and have other much more expensive bins.

Positives: lightweight, quick & easy focus, feel great in the hand, good color, sharp image, bright, reasonably close focus (I use these for butterflies), sturdy, weatherproof.

Negatives: some edge effects (little halos of color on lower edge of distant objects, like hawks) that I don't get in my $1600 bins. FOV a little bit narrow.

If there are better bins at this price I'd be amazed. I bird with these about 90% of the time now, and actually prefer them for long trips because they are so lightweight. I can use them for 8 hours at a hawkwatch without fatigue.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
AWESOME BINOCS!
By Stacey
I heard about these particular binoculars from my paddle guide in Thailand. I could see Great Horned Bills better out of these than through my cajillion dollar camera lens. They brighten everything up so you can easily find birds etc.. Great pair, esp. for the price.

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