Carson CF-618 CloseUp 6x18mm Close-Focus Monocular, Grey | Grey (CF-618)

Excellent product. Will focus down to 10 inches, so magnifies by 7 at 10 inches. Arrived very promptly. Plastic, yes but it feels sturdy. Small and light so easy to carry. Also good focusing at long range, so a versatile product that is very good value for money.

I bought the Carson 7x18 CloseUp Close Focus Monocular for use in art galleries, to get a magnified view of details in paintings. The monocular gives a sharp enough image for this, and acceptable brightness, even in the subdued lighting of a museum gallery. At 7x magnification, and being hand-held, the monocular always has to be held very carefully to avoid noticeable "shake" of the image. It is very useful for limited periods of inspection of details, but I would not find sustained gazing comfortable. At a quarter of the price of a specialist 4x magnification "gallery scope" (which might make shaking of the image a little less) I find the Carson product an attractive balance of cost to usefulness.

Good quality. With such high magnification there is a Problem is holding it steady

Its advertising suggests it's only for close-up viewing, but I was pleasantly surprised to find it can also focus on and magnify distant objects out to the horizon. It's only about a couple of inches long and light as a feather..:)

I bought this as I needed something small for finding stiles/gates in hedgerows in big fields. It's no carriage in fact it's a bit too light. Does the job though.

Exceeded expectations for the price, very useful.

Small enough to slip in a pocket, this monocular increases magnification by x6. It can be used very close up and has no maximum focus range. You have to twist it quite a lot to go from close focus to far focus which means it's easy to get just the right adjustments.

Bought to view insects very close up at minimum focus distance. At this minimum focus the objective lens was 28cm and my eye was about 37mm from the subject. The field of view was 3cm. Depth of field was very shallow and needed to be used as one would a 8x or 10x hand lens and move ones head back and forth to get/keep in focus. Image quality is quite good; not as good as a hand lens, but for that you'd be only 2-3cm away which isn't always pratical in the field. Not a precision optical instrument and haven't yet subjected it to living in the bottom of my rucksac for months on end, but seems reasonably robust and is as good as I could have expected for a bargain £18.

Immagine di buona qualità e soprattutto utile per la portabilità, piccolissimo e leggerissimo. Per escursioni e passeggiate l'ho trovato molto utile

I use this monocular to look at close objects, within two meters, reading numbers. It does what it says it would do. I did buy another monocular but it didn't do what was advertised. This is the real McCoy.

I wear eye glasses and can see the full field of view with them on, though some people have more deeply recessed eyes. I can focus it with one hand. My middle through pinky fingers hold the front barrel while my thumb and pointer turn the eye barrel. Just under 3 full turns covers the range from infinity to 10". Half a turn takes it from infinity to 6 feet. The Carson 7x18 focuses well past infinity too. It is 2.5 inches at shortest and 3.5 inches at longest. 7x confirmed by merging images with my 7x35 binoculars. The field of view is 400 ft, not 472 ft as advertised. The apparent field of view looks 50 degrees, not the 60 of my binoculars. I don't mind since the eye relief is so good. The focus is smooth with good tolerances and the right amount of friction. No wiggle. The inside is black, and the lenses are coated. Looks like quality. The larger barrel diameter is 1 1/8 inches. Very high depth of field far away, and very shallow depth of field up close. 1/2 turn takes you from infinity to 7 feet. I can easily hold this very steady with one hand, but I can also hold 16x binoculars steady. I'm well practiced. With my glasses I have a combined 20/20 vision. With my weaker eye I was just able to read a street sign two blocks away, while standing. I'm tempted to send one to my father as a gift. --------------------------------- Update: I opened the window so I could get a truer side by side test with my binoculars. Looking through a window with a few faint water spots, they look equally sharp as my Tasco Essentials 7x35. With the window opened, I could see that there is slightly more ever so faint haze in the Carson 7x18 than in my Tascos, which had slightly less clarity than naked eye. This is easily overlooked. Imaging looking through a clean window, vs opening the window to look outside. The clean window shows a good view most would not complain about nor notice anything wrong with when looking through, but the opened window is much better. The fully coated optics are nice, but not perfect. The roof prisms scatter a bit more light than porro prisms. You have to pay more or get something less streamlined to avoid that. Also, the center of view was sharper in the Tascos, as was the edge of view. The Tascos had a much wider field of view too. My Tascos are not as sharp as my Nikons. You get what you pay for. But if you are not super picky, the Carson will give you a magnified view that shows much more than what your eyes can see. It is small and portable and inexpensive. I've looked through some uncoated all plastic lens monoculars before, and the Carson is much clearer than them.

Es muy bueno, tiene buen Zoom, adjunto imagen, (Foto de la palapa) y también funciona para ver cosas más de cerca, como tipo microscopio (foto del peso) se ven un poco borrosas en las fotos, pero esto es culpa de mi pulso, la imagen del monocular es muy nítida, otra cosa no sabia usarlo muy bien, así que pensé que no servía el Zoom, no sean como yo, les explico, si quieren ver cosas de cerca, tienen que sacar todo el lente, para el Zoom lo tienen que hacer más chico , es muy compacto , puse una moneda de 10 pesos como referencia para que puedan ver el tamaño, Lo recomiendo

Se trata de un monoculo muy pequeño, de peso ligero y precio razonable, a pesar de todo esto la calidad de imagen es excelente logicamente teniendo en cuenta que es un 18. En resumen es el equipo ideal para personas que como yo realizamos caminatas por lugares en los que a veces se echa de menos disponer de un prismatico pero que queremos llevarlo en el bolsillo. El aumento que aporta es tambien muy adecuado para este uso ya que es suficiente para la observación de la naturaleza sin que se produzcan movimientos ni vibraciones.