Allbinos review of the Diamondback HD 15x56 (1 Viewer)

[yarrellii]

Hooray, Allbinos is back on track. And this time with a long range device (it seems that it was one of the areas where they were lacking in reviews, and they've sure made up for that in their latest series of reviews of 12x binoculars). 15x56 is probably not the most popular birding format, but either way, always interesting to read their findings.

Vortex Diamondback HD 15x56 - binoculars review - AllBinos.com

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The 15x56 seems to follow the trend of the Diamondback HD family of offering nice products for a reasonable price, where the downside is mainly CA (as expected in a high power bino). I've been quite impressed by the claim at the end of their conclusions: "We actually think it is the best instrument of the whole Diamondback HD series, reaching results noticeably better than its smaller 8x32 and 10x42 brothers, tested by us earlier". Now, that's quite an endorsement.

 

[Ignatius]

It may well be an endorsement, but the people from AllBinos give with one hand and take away with the other:
"What do we lack here? Despite the HD symbol in the name the Diamondback series most likely doesn't feature any low dispersion glass elements. It might be forgivable in models with a smaller magnification factor but in case of a pair of binoculars that is supposed to provide 15x magnification chromatic aberration makes itself felt and becomes really bothersome."