This monocular has a decent magnification, good for bird watching or animal spotting. Looks rugged and well built for the outdoors, comes with rubber caps for both ends. My only complain will be the clearly visible spherical and chromatic aberration, but that I guess is expected at this price point.It comes with a tripod and mobile phone mount, so you can use it to take long distance photos, adding a couple of sample shots I took. Its not too bad, but focusing can be a pain and the tripod is notSee full review