Monocular advice please?

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Dear all.

Thanks for the hook-up folk.

I'm interested in drawing mostly, and take pictures to aid this. I've seen lots of adverts of late for cheap high power monoculars, from £20 to £40 are they, any good? I'm not after taking pictures with it, but more for seeing at distance clearly. I'd value some good advice please. I have an excellent pair of binoculars but if these items are as good and powerful as they say, then why not add one to the collection. Has anyone brought one recently please, feedback.
 
I have a Vortex monocular which I find excellent. I bought it specifically for looking at insects as it focuses fairly close to. Cost me £40 three years ago.
 
Welcome to TP.
I've been thinking about a monocular for bird id etc as it would fit in my pocket, where's my binoculars won't.
be interested in the responses here....
 
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I also looked a few weeks ago and very nearly bought one .. BUT caveat emptor ... read the comments on amazon first as some of them are basically telling lies about range /magnification etc so very confusing sorting out the wheat from the chaff that in the end I gave up on the idea .
my intention was to use instead of a spotting scope ,as a glasses wearer I find them really unusable , the ones in my price range anyway but alas ill now just stick to my bins
 
footman said:
Oddly enough I was having a look a couple of days ago for a monocular, this one caught my eye (no pun intended, honest):

Not sure how pocketable it is and it's certainly not cheap but it's quite well reviewed.
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I think 12x magnification would be too much for a hand held monocular....
 
the one i keep seeing all over the place is the starscope monocular . price appears to be around the £40-50 mark and not a day goes by some advert for it is popping up.
 
So we have all been looking but no-one has taken a punt as yet? I keep coming back, maybe someone has at some time, cheers all.
 
I bought an opticron monocular 8x32 quite a few years ago for around £100, a couple of years ago I went for a Viking 10x30 that has image stabilisation which was nearer £200. If your binoculars really are excellent then I think that you will be disappointed by cheap monoculars.
 
richardhb said:
So we have all been looking but no-one has taken a punt as yet? I keep coming back, maybe someone has at some time, cheers all.
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