Thread: The Case for 15x56 Binoculars

Unless you carry a tripod 15x will be worthless.
Putting a pair of 10x binos on a tripod shows how bad hand holding is with 10x, 15x will be considerably worse.

Personally I wouldn't think you need more than 10x until looking past 800m, and you wont want to be trying to look any closer than 300m as the FOV will be really narrow.
If you have access to a tripod then I'd be taking that and using the 10x binos, you might be surprised at how much difference it makes.

The problems with higher magnification is you sacrifice on the closer distances, so if you are looking in terrain inside of 400m 90% of the time, 15x binos will be a disadvantage the majority of the time.
I've got a pair of 6.5x binos and inside of 500m they are brilliant, the massive FOV is great, especially for use inside of 100m. I have no idea how people use 10x binos for these distances.
Put them on a tripod and they are effective to some pretty long distances.

My rough bino magnification guideline is something like:
0-300m <7x
100-600m 8x
300-800m 10x
500m+ 12x or greater