Canon 18x50 IS Image Stabilized Binocular

Wonderful image - incredible stabilization, very luminous.You can read a newspaper across the street.Get for them the Canon anti-fog eyepieces, some Zacuto eye cup rubber extensions from the eyepieces to your face, and a simple elastic harness...

I took them to the Crane migration event in Kearney Nebraska and they worked very well in low light and better than expected. The Binoculars are heavier than what I normally use. However, in the blind where I had a way of resting the binoculars on something they worked nicely.

As steady as you try to hold yourself, even your beating heart will cause the visual field to jiggle, but the built-in stabilization works perfectly (and quietly) to provide easy viewing. These superb optics are not meant for hikers but for observers at fixed positions.

These are excellent binoculars. Power is good, picture is crystal clear and the Stabilization feature makes it unnecessary to mount it on a tripod (although there is an easy way to do it). I should have bought these years ago.

In Image Stabilization in this binocular works very well (no surprise, since Canon is the company that invented the technology in the first place and then licensed it out to the other manufacturers) - with 18x power that makes all the difference!

Very good piece of kit for looking at wildlife etc.

it's been a wish list item for some years however..it is to said that binos on tripods do not also work wonders

Great binoculars in every respect and would have given them 5 stars HOWEVER, the rubber coating on the width adjustment barrels has perished and gone to a sticky mess. This is a Canon design and manufacturing fault which is verified by the number of complaints and references on the Web.

Very good set of binoculars, worth the cost.

I recently purchased these 18.50 binoculars. I read many reviews about astronomy binoculars and knew I had to have high power with stabilization. My first choice was the Canon 15x50 due to several reviews stating that the 18x was too much magnification for hand held use.