Terrific little binoculars - Leupold BX-1 Yosemite 6x30mm Binoculars

I bought a pair of these for my daughter a few years ago, and liked them so much that I bought another pair as a gift to her friend. They are not as compact as a similar sized roof prism design, but at this price, I don't think you can get a roof prism with phase-correction, which is a must-have feature for me. Porro prisms need no phase correction.

The image is very good. It gets a bit soft in the outer half of the field of view, but the other pair of porro binos I have that were about the same price are noticeably worse.

Internal baffling and blackening of the tubes is decent: when facing the sun, the image is not badly washed out with internal reflections. I've seen cheaper binos in which internal reflections made them almost unusable when facing the sun.

Light and comfortable to carry. The 6x power is nice if you have shaky hands: although the image is smaller, it's steadier. Not a bad trade-off. It also gives a bigger exit pupil, which is a little easier to find as you raise them to your eyes.

On paper, the close-focus distance is not great, but they seem to work closer than advertised. Probably another effect of the low power, which allows greater depth of field.

Twist-up eyecups are good with glasses.