Shedding Light On The Situation

Some pocket binoculars are so tiny they can fit in your jacket pocket with ease. The advantage to this is obviously you have one less thing that will weigh you down during your bird watching expedition. However, there are some disadvantages to compact birding binoculars. Especially, if you are going exploring on a cloudy day. Since their objective lenses are only about 20 to 25 millimeters you will not be able to capture as much light as opposed to objective lenses sporting sizes of 42 mm. Though, if the weather is sunny both sizes will do fairly well.