Meade CaptureView Binocular

These binoculars are very compact, light weight, and easy to focus. As for the camera, very disappointing. The pictures it takes are very poor. The position of the button to take the picture is in kind of a bad spot, so it seems like no matter what you do, you can't keep it still enough not to take a blurry picture. The life of the batteries is short, and the unit has a battery saver, which automatically shuts off the camera portion after a short time, too short. When you are trying to focus, it kicks off. I purchased this because I am a bird watcher and thought I would be able to get a closer picture using these. But after downloading the pictures and having to search each picture for the bird, I realized, this just won't work for that sort of thing. I tried for about 3 months to experiment with it and the only few good pictures it took were landscape pictures. My regular camera does a better job doing that as well. The binoculars are great though, even for birdwatching.