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Image 1 — Looking a pair for hiking and ski tour purpose with high quality optics.
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Looking a pair for hiking and ski tour purpose with high quality optics.

Hi everyone,

I am looking for a pair of binoculars mainly to go hiking and ski Touring / mountaineering. I need to be compact and light (~400g max).

I’m searching for a light / robust / easy to manipulate and cristal clear images. Magnification x10 preferred but x8 would be ok.

A friend of mind told me Voigtlander are doing APO binocular similar and even better than the ZEISS one. I tried his [pair of Voigtländer (cosina) Vienna 10x25 APO](https://www.voigtlaender.de/binoculars/?lang=en) which is in a way “Zeiss manufacturing/design”.

I have to say it was amazing but without comparison… I cannot tell. They are APO and everything is so detailed and cleared. First time I appreciate so much looking in some binoculars.

Looking everywhere - I see everyone mentioning Swaro CL , Zeiss VICTORY and Leica (I don’t know which model) but nobody mentioned Voigtländer.

Does someone know about it or has recommendation for the purpose ?

My colleague is very peaky on lenses and told me it was even better than the Zeiss and Leica he tried next to next with the vendor.

Thank you very much !

u/n1c0sax0 — 2 days ago