Canon 18x50 is All Weather Image Stabilized Binoculars

Sharp image and easy to use. A little on the heavy side, but I expected that.

The Flexible Lens caps folds down, and they are designed to fold down around the sleeve with the lip of the cap folding under the flange. It actually is a great design, see the two pictures I uploaded. For those of you that are not folding down the lens caps, you are loosing about 30% of the field of view. Its noticeable when you look thru the eyepieces. A little heavy, but as expected. Will work with a tripod, the tripod needs to be tall. I also added a set of Hoya 58mm Lens covers with the cannon 58MM lens caps. They just screw in and will protect my lens. I had the 10x30's and these 18X x50's are a definite upgrade. Looks like a good deal to me. 5 Star

Best thing to happen in optics! When you press the stabilize button magic happens: My shaking following a bird in the sky disappears! I had ordered the new less expensive Canon’s with stabilization but learned just in time that they were not water resistant! Keep in mind there is electronics in these devices- moisture creeping in is death. Rapid temperature changes just jumping out of my warm cozy car into the winter world = moisture! Really recommend these!

Overall an excellent binocular. I have a hard time hand holding a binocular with more than 12x zoom, so the IS on this product is key to get a portable product that still has a good amount of magnification. The eyecups are hard to use and you have to jam them onto your face to get a good field of view or fold back the eyecups. I wish they had the standard twist outs that every other manufacterer seems to have that provides light control and is comfortable as well. That being said image quality is excellent and it's still well worth the purchase. Interestingly, these are my first set of 18x binonulars. Field of view is tight and my vision is excellent so I find that the improved field of view of some nice 12x binoculars like the excellent Swarovski 12x42 NL Pure is preferrable and more immersive. But when 18x is what you need this is a great pair.Update: after several months of ownership i continue to love the optics and performance of these binoculars though truly hate the eyecups. It’s uncomfortable to jam your face into them for an immersive view or else you fold back the cups and have lots of light spilling in. I finally solved the problem by folding the middle of the eyecups in which allows light to be blocked from the sides and a great view but no pain on the nasal bridge. This kept flipping back up but i liked the solution enough that I used rubber Sugru putty to mold the eyecups into a good ergonomic position flipped down in the middle (used rubber band to hold in position while glue set overnight). It’s a little ugly but now binoculars are prefect and comfortable.

So far so good BUT...I don't understand how Canon can sell such an expensive piece of equipment that's been around for 20+ years with such shoddy accessories. There are NO objective lens covers. And the eyepiece covers are individual caps that don't attach to a strap. The included strap is too thin for something this heavy but since the strap is often a personal choice and probably one of the most frequently replaced items, I'm not surprised.Finally, the cheap sack they call a case isn't much. My biggest complaint here is that it's pretty exposed at the top, the clip is pretty cheap plastic. Also, if you use it, get objective lens caps and covers instead of the letting the lenses grind against any debris that might wind up at the bottom of the bag. The 58mm threaded Canon UV filters and lens caps work great.Because these binoculars ARE nice and worth protecting. I just wish Canon thought the same.

I have many binoculars and 2 telescopes, an 8" reflector(old but a real beauty) and Meade ETX-90(older model of this scope but really a nice one. I have 4 Canon Image Stabilized bino's: 12x36, 10c42L, 15x50 and this 18x50. I love them all, you can't go wrong. Some people complain about the eye cups being uncomfortable. I do not have that complaint. They work well.

i had too cut eye cups flush and add eye guards from telescope eyepieces , guess my eyes are close together ipd, also got the 58mm uv filters, also got the 58mm lens covers, both work together or u can use one or the other, i got the generic canon 58mm lens covers for 5 bucks, yes they should come wth binoculars!! but works perfectly, no complaints so far !! at first i had trouble finding the winged eye guards, but lucky that i found a link to “Alpine astronomical “ and they stock the size needed to fit over eyepiece perfectly. if you just cut eye cup flush with eyepiece, the size is 40.5mm...,,,, update, first light, i saw, m101,m51,m81,m82,m92,m13,m3,, all easy for these canon 18x50 bins, i was surprised at the size of these objects, also got a peek at jupiter, could easily see it as a perfect disk ! and the moons of course, just incredible !,, clear skies! , updated 5/25/2019,,, updated 6/7,19,, got a really great sky and picked up m97,m108,and m109,seen not glimpsed seen! 10th magnitude!!! just for reference i had the pleasure too own a 8 inch cass, 7 inch mak, and miyachi 100mm binoculars, not rich just lucky,all sold and gone, life got in the way and i could no longer get out under the star’s, after 15 years i’m able too again, i didn’t want a big telescope again, but wanted too see my old friends again!! , after a lot of reading “ astronomy came a long way!” and my best bet was the canon is,binoculars, yes for advanced users for sure, but these things are just awesome, and so same for the 12x36 is iii,. clear skies!!, also can be a powerful tool with 0-||| or other dso filters , i’ve seen m8 m17 m16 easily without these filters, but the pop u get with these fiter’s is very good, and noticeably better than without them, u can use a step up ring for the 2 inch deep sky filters, think 48mm too 58mm camera adaptation rings. as a last note, these 18x50mm binoculars are a globular cluster fanatics dream !! i’m one of em lol.,, was able too glimpse m109 :) hard one though!!