Originally Posted by
GWH
My hunting mate has the ZR Prime HD's in 10x42, i have the much less expensive Vortex Diamondback 10x42's. We have compared them side by side back and forth on the hill at last light. We both agreed, the Vortex DB was a touch brighter the last few minutes of light. During the day you cannot really tell them apart.
You can get Diamondbacks for sub $400 NZ on trademe. Sure expensive euro optics are bound to be better, but in all reality how much better are they. I bet they are not 10x better. Its not hard to spend $4,000 on euro binos if you wanted too.
The Diamondback for the $ are very hard to go past, unless you are an optics snob that couldn't possibly be seen with anything that wasn't euro ;-)