Yesterday I heard about Nikon 8-16X40 XL Zoom. At 30 ounces, they sound really good so I spent a couple hours on google trying to find some. There are none to be found. Is there another zoom in its weight class with glass as good as this unit?
There are no good zoom binoculars and Nikon's are probably the best of a bad lot. They have narrow fields of view, even at low power, very short eye relief, are very dim and are useless at the high powers. And they break easily. Enough said!
Bob
Bob, Brock had the Nikon 8-16x40 XL Zoom and I had a chance to use it, it is in another league compared to the ones you are thinking about.. These cost about $600 new + or -.
If Brock sees this maybe he give the OP information about this binocular. There is a thread on the best of binocular forum on Cloudy Nights about zoom binoculars.