There can be no more regrets if you are not occupying the first seat for watching a sport or not at as close as your friends place to enjoy birds, nature and wild life. With Olympus 12×25 PC I Porro Prism Binocular you get to take a better look of your interest subject. It comes handy suitable for travel and even mountaineer. Realising the need of such models the brand ‘Olympus’ enriched with immense experience brings many models with different specification under different segments. The further read will give a closer vision of this product to help you decide.

Application:

Olympus 12×25 PC I Compact Binocular may be quite confusion to understand the right specification for your kind of observation. When it comes to this model it proves ideal for the bird watching, its weight and dimension makes it suitable for camping and hiking, while it goes well for traveling too. These activities can be enjoyed in its excellent manner and it also delivers good performance for the general use and sports events. These wide applications are a big plus for the device and allowing it to be used widely makes it more popular.

Olympus 12×25 PC I Binocular

Type:

Made with the porro prism construction it brings more clarity and sharpness in the viewing images. It also groups with the high index Bak4 prism the one that is popularly used in such devices. This can be called as the right combination and it makes the device highly efficient for viewing a relatively far off terrestrial objects be it the nature, birds, wild life or a sports activity.

Size and Structure:

It can be boldly called as the compact device and the one with the light weight construction when compared to the other series models of this brand. Its takes the dimension of 114mm in width when it is fully extended and so is the depth of 48 mm, its height is 98mm. This device weighs as little as 280 grams that can easily fit into the pockets or can be simple hung around the neck without the feel of its weight.

Colour and Design:

Like many other models of this series, this product also comes with the silver body with the black eyepiece and the diopter. It is an attractive finish and a unique one when compared with the model that gives same contemporary colour of black, green and brown. This design widely differentiates from the other models and maintains the brand uniformity in it.

Technical details:

  • Magnification – The technical in this model support the magnification of 12x which means that it can magnify the viewing image up to 12 times of its original size.
  • Aperture – This is the measurement of the objective lens diameter and it is 25mm, quite justifiable for the mid range models to object brighter images.
  • Exit pupil – The small round found in the objective lens with the measurement of 2.1mm is the exit pupil that seconds the light gathering ability of the objective lens.
  • Diopter – The diopter present in the centre of the device can be adjusted based on the viewers requirement and it can be adjust to the extend of Over ±2 m-1. The eye interval adjustment range also varies from 528mm to 70mm.

Image focusing and quality:

The actual field of view is 4.5 degree and the apparent field of view is 54 degrees. The field of view at the distance of 1000m is 79 metres. It gives a relative brightness of 4.3 and the long eye relief of 16.0 mm. The close focus is comfortable at the minimum distance of 3.5metres.

Other features:

This model comes with the optical lens coating that is fully multi coated and the lens configuration is 8 elements in 6 groups. It delivers a long eye relief of 16 mm that is better than the moderate level and hence it can comfort the users with the eye glasses. The eye pieces are adjustable and can be twisted up and down. The lenses are UV protected giving the eyes utmost protection and safety.

Box contents:

Along with Olympus 12×25 PC I Travel Binocular the manufacturer offers a case, neck strap and protective lens cover for the maintenance of the device in the best possible manner.

Olympus 12×25 PC I Compact Size Binocular – Technical Specification Table

Manufacturer Olympus
Model Name 12×25 PC I Binocular
Binocular Type Porro Prism
Dimensions ( W x H x D ) 114 x 98 x 48 mm
Weight 280 gm
Magnification 12x
Diameter of Objective Lens 25 mm
Exit Pupil 2.1 mm
Eye Relief 16 mm
Close focus 3.5 m
Diopter adjustment range Over ±2 m-1
Eye interval adjustment range 58 – 70 mm
Field of view at 1000 meters 79 metres
Relative Brightness 4.3
Other features Multi coating optics
Long eye relief
Adjustable eye pieces – twist up/down
High index BaK4 prism
UV protection
Box Contents Binocular, case, neck strap and protective lens cover

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