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Originally Posted by Darkplague
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Mark,
Your correct in your assumption, The Nikon Action are a lower level cheaper binocular than the EX. Here are links to the respective webpages from Maxwell Optical Indutrues, who are the Australian Distributors for Nikon.
Nikon Action EX
http://www.maxwell.com.au/products/n...action_ex.html
Nikon Action
http://www.maxwell.com.au/products/n...rd/action.html
If you click on the price guide at the top right corner of each page you will see that for the 10x50 models the Recommended Retail of the 10x50 Action EX is $499 and for the 10x 50 Action is $370. If you shop around you will do infinitely better than this pricewise. Forget about E-Bay, buy from a reputable dealer, If you have warranty issues you want to be able to return them to the purchaser/distributor not hunting for a "non-existent seller". My guess is that company's like Diamonds Camera Store or Centre.net would order either of these binos in for you and the price would be about 60% to 70% of the RRP. The EX series offer better quality optics, significantly longer eye-relief and they are waterproof. The EOF performance is sharper in the EX series. Depends what quality your looking for and what you are prepared to pay. The Nikon Action are a "fair" binocular but IMO not as good as the Action EX or the Pentax PCF WP which cost slightly less money. I always try to buy the best quality I can afford and not look for "el-cheapo" comprises, I have a theory and that is "the poor man always ends up paying twice". eg. The Pentax 12x50 PCF WP which cost about $270 have a limited lifetime warranty, company's don't offer that type of warranty on crap products. I should also point out that in the Pentax PCF WP series I prefer the 12x50's over the 10x50's as the 12x50's have an additional eyepiece lens element which provides a slighly flatter field than the 10x50's do and EOF performance is a little better than the 10x50's, not that the 10x50's are bad just the 12x50's are a little better to the EOF.
I would recommend you open your wallet and buy either the 12x50 Pentax PCF WP II or the 10x50 Nikon Action EX. You will be happy with either of these Binos for a long time to come. Anything bigger than these and you really need a tripod to support them.
CS-John B