If you're going to buy some binos.. you should really get away from the compacts and get into something that'll offer you better low light visibility, better focal planes and a lot less eye strain.
Ive got a set of 8x32 windriver olimpics , allmost as good as swearofskys , for around $200
Spoke like a man whos never looked through good glass and bad glass side by side at first or last light. There simply isn't a pair of binos for $200 that'll come close to a good set of Swarovskis. But again... if you're looking through "X" by 30... none of them are good in low light.
I won't go into all the why and where fores of low light viewing, eye dialiation, exit lens/objective lens/power etc... but it's a know "Trueism". The most efficient viewing for the human eye is a pair of 7 x 50s or some other combination that gives you a ratio of eye to objective lens of 7. The lower the worse they are for you. Above a factor of 7 is wasted as the human eye can't dialiate and utilize anymore. Then you throw in more magnification and and smaller objective lenses... well it's going down hill from their. You have to decide which is more important... big power and less low light viewing or maybe a trade off. In my case I went with a set of 7 x 42s. Factor of 6, decent magnification for my whitetail woods and still good low light viewing and no eye strain if viewing for long periods.
Then you throw in Glass Quality itself. They are different. Glass is the one thing in life you basically get what you pay for.
To those who say they'd never carry a set of binos into a tree. Man, are you missing out on a lot of deer and details. I do a lot of scouting while sitting in a tree with my binos. I often pick out deer and patterns from 100 or 200 yards away... just finding a hole in the woods to peak through. Places you'd NEVER see a deer without the binos.