Steiner Peregrine Binoculars

Steiner-Germany has developed the new Peregrine binocular, a new record in light transmission that allows faster discovery and location of birds hidden in foliage or shadows.

Since birds are often visible for only a few seconds, seeing their true colors in bright contrast and clearly identifying the most subtle color differences is extremely important.

8x42 Peregrine - Extremely bright and probably our best all around birding glass. Wide field of view and excellent close focus. Unbelievable brightness and very wide field of view. This is the best model for viewing birds flying, in the shade, under trees, or even in the darkness of night. The Peregrine's offer the highest measured broad band transmission of any birding binocular with light transmission over 95% throughout the entire visible color spectrum.

10x42 Peregrine - Higher power than the 8x42 Peregrine but otherwise identical in shape and weight. 10 power offers excellent resolution, especially in low light and in shadows at greater distances. Power plus the superb color transmission. This is one of the brightest 10 power roof prism binoculars available. Recommended mostly for distance glassing such as shorebirds, hawks, falcons, eagles. But the 10x42 Peregrine will also allow you unbelievable close-in viewing, since the focus goes very close, the performance will be extraordinary.

8.5x50 Peregrine - Specifically designed for wildlife observation, the new Peregrine offers the ideal balance between power, brightness and portability. With a bit more power then its 8x42 Peregrine and a significantly larger exit pupil, Steiner's new 8.5x50 Peregrine does not sacrifice portability for increased power and brightness. The new Peregrine, weighing merely 30 ounces, can be comfortably worn on a neck strap or stored in a backpack.

The Optics

With Steiner's new Peregrine, a new level of brightness and natural color balance is achieved by use of a new dielectric prism coating, by which over 40 layers of titanium oxide and other rare minerals are alternately applied to the glass surfaces. This Broad-Band Coating (BBC) results in superior light transmission performance over a broad range of colors. The Peregrine is also phase corrected for sharpest possible, distortion free images.

The optics of the Peregrine measure higher in spectral light transmission across the entire visible light range, on average, than all of our other closest performance competitors. This means you see colors more vibrantly and you can discover and identify species in more difficult settings and situations.

The optical glass is manufactured at our new state-of-the-art roof prism glass production facility in Bayreuth, Germany.

Focusing

The focus is our rapid close-focus system with left hand diopter adjustment. The precise central focus wheel will go from a close focus of less than 6 feet out to infinity in just one full turn.

Any less - the focus would be to sensitive and not precise enough. Any more - the focus could be too slow. The focus of the Peregrine was designed to give you this perfect balance of speed and precision.

Shockproof/Waterproof

We're not just saying it, we practically invented it! As you may already know, Steiner has been in the binocular business for over 55 years now, and has developed numerous innovations which makes binoculars last longer in unfriendly conditions. Early on, we pioneered the use of rubber armoring, and most recently we developed a dry nitrogen purging and pressurization system that absolutely prevents binoculars from fogging internally. We built this purging/pressurized dry nitrogen system into the Peregrine binoculars. They are the only birding glass that we know of that meets and exceeds the US governments waterproof specification (Mil Std 810 E).