Bushnell 7×18mm Imageview binoculars are the most economical binoculars in the digital camera binoculars category. These binoculars are very compact and can be easily termed as the pocket binoculars.
Some of the specification for this binocular is the prism design and the design is porro prism. Porro prism design is definitely cost effective to manufacture. For more on the porro prism design you can read my post here on the porro prism binoculars.
Specifications
Objective lens diameter is 18mm
The magnification is 7x
Exit pupil is 2.57 mm
Eye relief is 14.5mm
The field of view is 365 feet at 1000 yards
It needs two AAA batteries
As far as the lens coatings are concerned the lenses have the fully coated specifications. The prisms are made up of BaK-7 glass material.
The resolution of the digital camera binoculars can vary from the VGA resolution to the mega pixel binoculars and for these Bushnell binoculars the resolution is VGA.
It has a 16MB memory to hold the pictures taken in the internal memory.
If you buy these Bushnell Digital Binoculars then you will also get a USB cable, A image editing software as well as the a bag to carry all these toghers includig the binoculars.
Picture quality of this 7×18mm Imageview binoculars is juts about average though at the price at which you can get these is pure value for money. As far as use is concerned it is fairly easy to use and you can get pictures by just one click of a button.
Challenges with these binoculars
The challenge is getting the pictures off into the PC. You need to install a driver to get the PC to recognize the Digital camera binocular. This brand does not have the SD memory card slot and hence it becomes tough to get a lot of photos and you will have to offload these into the PC every now and then. If you are using these while hunting then at one stage you will feel a bit handicapped that you cannot take more pictures with it.
The resolution of the pictures is 640×480 only. This is small resolution as compared to what you can get for a lot of pictures today.
There are some PC requirements that are a must have for you top download the pictures
Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Intel Pentium 166MMX processor or better
32MB RAM or better
USB port