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Cstar Spy-Scope 8x20 Monocular | 
| Brand: CStar Optics
Category: Sports
List Price: $34.99
Buy New: $23.17
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You Save: $11.82 (34%)
New (3) Used (1) from $21.95
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 78854
Color: Silver and Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 10 x 5
MPN: M-28C
Model: M-28C
UPC: 653233427184
EAN: 0653233200282
ASIN: B0007YR6BA
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Delivers bright sharp images | | • | No blurry edges around the viewing area | | • | Constructed of lightweight aluminum | | • | Easy focus and 8x magnification brings you closer to your subject | | • | Roll-down eyecups are perfect for eyeglass wearers |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Do you fancy yourself a spy? Regardless of your desire to be James Bond, the Cstar M-28C Spy-scope 8 x 20 monocular is an optically engineered system that delivers a bright, sharp image with no blurry edges around the viewing area. The M-28C is constructed of lightweight aluminum and is easy to focus. The roll-down eyecups are perfect for eyeglass wearers and the 8x magnification brings you closer to your subject. The M-28C comes with a convenient Nylon carrying pouch with belt loop, so you won't have to worry about losing your spy-scope when you're on a special assignment. What's in the Box
M-28C spy-scope lens monocular, nylon carrying pouch with belt loop, and lens cleaning cloth.
Product Description
The Cstar Optics® 8x spy scope monocular offers a compact design you can easily take along for weekend outings, getting back to nature, as well as music and sporting events. The solid metal body construction houses all-glass optics lenses and prisms. Includes a case.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Exactly what I wanted! August 20, 2010
Shortie
This is exactly what I was looking for. Great for concerts, bird watching, anywhere you would take binoculars, but light and fits in the palm of your hand.
What's the best Optics? January 17, 2009
Y. Tsuchida (Sunnyvale, California USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Answer to the Title Question: the one that you have onhand.
I like to carry "optics" when I travel (touring), when I go out into the wild (for sights and birding), and I would always have some optics on me when I go tactical (like on my rifle, separately, or specialized, like NVGs). After messing around with various designs, magnifications, sizes, weights, and extra features, like lens coatings, I finally decided that the most practical utility vs. weight-size ratio was in the 8 X 21 or 8 X 20 compact monocular design. For me it's about the perfect balance of practicality, cost and portability/deployability... afterall, you may have the best $1000 Zeiss optics in the world, but if it's sitting in it's protective case deep in your backpack... well, it ain't doin' you any good. So it was for me. I carried around various nice (read: expensive) binoculars and spotting scopes for years, dutifully packed away in my pack, or the exterior side pocket of my pack, or on my belt in a holster, or as this huge 2.5 pound anchor around my neck. But really what I wanted was the ability to quickly get a closer, clearer view of something (birds, terrain features, points of interest) mainly for confirmation. In fact, sometimes it was just to scope out a street sign when I was navigating. Through the years I downsized to more practical sizes, and finally, I ended up with 8 X 20 monocular as my most practical solution.
With my monocular in a quickly accessible mini-pouch on my packstrap, I can whip out my optics in like 3 seconds and be already focusing in whatever object caught my eye, while my friends are still digging around in packs for their binoculars or more often, not even bothering to take the trouble. And just as quickly, I can put it back into it's case and be hiking. I'll tell you, it's made a world of difference to me.... seeing things more closely, at will, conveniently and quickly.
It's true the field of view for this monocular is limited. It simply is not large enough (diameter) to pull in a whole lot of light, so forget about low-light or night viewing (that's not to say that I haven't enjoyed some stargazing or looking at the moon with this scope). And, as has been pointed out, it's not even the best ergonomic design for focusing (without practice). But, for me, it's a functional, utilitarian design and the decent pricing makes it a device that I don't terribly fret about damaging. As a matter of fact, I have 3 and I've only destroyed 1 (so far) and parted it out for repairs.
There are many nice monocular designs out there. All I'm saying is that this one works for me.... cheap, practical, functional.
 Kevin Sato November 15, 2008
Kevin M. Sato (Chicago, Ill USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased this unit to keep in my car for fast spotting. Its compact and very easy to focus. Person with big fingers will have problems. Its only good for day time and general spotting. The magnifacation is not much, but the view is pretty clear for such an inexpensive unit. I use a monocular over a binocular because I have trouble setting up the view without having double vision. This unit is fast to spot objects and easy to focus but not to strong, so I would only recommend it for emergency.
Kevin Sato
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