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10x42 I believe gives you the best balance between stability, magnification and light gathering. I use meopta meostar b1 hd binos and I am using it to see in the morning when it is still too dark for my eyes. It's nuts. At 12x some people start to run into problems holding it still freehand (stabilization binos solve that), and you need to start considering weight. I think a lot of the 12s jump to 50mm.

My wife was using an 8x32 this year and she could not see the things I could. Santa brought her a 10x42. German Precision Optics. The owner I believe was a Zeiss executive. Rippin good glass for the money. It's up there with the best of them.

[QUOTE="peterk123, post: 9345041, member: 60053"] 10x42 I believe gives you the best balance between stability, magnification and light gathering. I use meopta meostar b1 hd binos and I am using it to see in the morning when it is still too dark for my eyes. It's nuts. At 12x some people start to run into problems holding it still freehand (stabilization binos solve that), and you need to start considering weight. I think a lot of the 12s jump to 50mm. My wife was using an 8x32 this year and she could not see the things I could. Santa brought her a 10x42. German Precision Optics. The owner I believe was a Zeiss executive. Rippin good glass for the money. It's up there with the best of them. [/QUOTE]

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