

The Carson 3D binoculars were impressively sharp and easily as bright as the Athlon set, but they felt almost as if they had tunnel vision, likely because their field of view was around 20 percent narrower than that of the Athlons. The Nikon was 361 feet at 1,000 yards versus 426 feet for the Athlons, Bushnells, and Celestrons, which had the widest fields of view of the models I tested. Neither the Nikon nor the Carson model had the wide field of view at distance that the Athlon Midas ED boasted. During testing in Southern California and southern Mexico, a few other models-including the Bushnell Legend L Series, Celestron TrailSeeker, Carson 3D, and Nikon Monarch 5 (my favorite of four Nikon models at the target price)-proved very good at bringing in color under harsh conditions.
