Great quality materials and workmanship makes these perfect for everything from bird watching to checking storm fronts and locating wildfire smoke plumes. Like so much of the country where we're at in Colorado we have had some terrible wildfires recently and continue to watch for more these Pulaisen Binoculars have made the watching and looking much easier and more comfortable. I love the power these have to bring the things I want to see into focus with such ease of use these are not nearly as heavy as other field glasses of this size I have used I can wear these comfortably around my neck for hours while on trails or a boat. I took these on a fishing trip to the Western Slope of Colorado with 3 other people all of wear glasses and we all were able to use these with or without our prescription glasses and even with each of us changing the focus it only took a couple seconds to adjust them when we were using them having the lens covers attached on the large ends and the small lens covers attached to the neck strap made keeping track of the protective covers easy the included case provides a safe and secure place to store the binoculars while travelling. These are by far the best pair of binoculars I've owned and the way there built they will probably be the last pair I ever need but if the need ever does arise I will look to Pulaisen for a new pair.