Celestron 71017

Difficult To Focus ; Difficult to Use ; Heavy ; Unstable

Difficult To Focus ; Difficult to Use ; Heavy ; Unstable

These binoculars are impressive looking but they lack the finesse of smaller units. The weight is more than the small single mounting post (or most camera tripods for that matter) can handle. When you try to focus the eyepieces, the binoculars shake...

highly recommended. Clear Bright View !!!! Make sure you buy a sturdy tripod along with this..

The other comments on the mounting screw having a lot of play are very true. Tighten all you want, duct tape might work better. The magnification is strong enough that, after 6 months, I found a tripod to be mandatory. The Celestron recommended...

I read the reviews here and learned a lot. Thanks. So far so good. These are heavy as warned. You need to brace yourself against something to hold still and, or support the heavy base on something like a post or rock. I don't care though. I can see so...

These 25x100 SkyMaster beauties are amazing. Once these are mounted on a sturdy tripod (good luck finding one) you are in for a treat! Nicely portable I brought these out to get great views of the most recent lunar eclipse and the Ooohhh's and Aaahhh's...

I finally got to test these the other evening under a dark, moonless sky on the Washington coast and was not disappointed. True, the mounting is not exactly adeqaute for the sheer size of these binoculars but they still work if you're careful and have...

The Celestron Skymaster 25x100 binoculars are exceptional with two faults...These faults are not per say a problem with the binoculars...They were not packed very well...Being a precision optical instrument one would think that they would have been...

I received these well-packaged binoculars in record time from Amazon. In time for the March 3 lunar eclipse in fact, which was "first light" for them. Upon unpacking them I noticed that the internal part of the binoculars (as viewed from the objective...