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Friday, April 20, 2007

Binocular tips for glass wearers

In order to enjoy bird watching you need to be interested in it on the first place, and also have a birding binocular, but the second most important thing is that you need to know certain things, which will make your hobby more fun and easy. If you know some of them, good for you, but if not, then simply read it, and try to follow them if you like any of them.
So, the first thing is about your binoculars. If you're wearing glasses, then turn the eyecups down, and if you don't wear glasses turn your eyecups to the up position. And if you're sharing binoculars with your family or friends, you also need to make sure that each person, in turn, adjusts the eyecups.
Secondly, you need to be very careful with your eyes if you wear glasses. The distance behind the eyepiece where you can see the whole field of view is called binocular's eye relief. S, everyone who wears glasses needs to look for binoculars tha have an eye relief of at least 15 or 16 mm.
Thirdly, if you wear glasses, you need to keep them on when using binoculars, do that even if you wear bifocals or progressive lenses. By the way, if don't wear your glasses, you won't be able to find birds.
Also when buying binoculars you'll see two numbers on them, the first number indicates the power of the binocular. Meaning, it tells you how many times the object you see in reality will be magnified in your binoculars. As for the second number, it refers to the measurement in millimeters, of the diameter of the objective lens at the far end of your binocular. In general, it means how much light this binocular will let in.
Knowing all this will be enough for some time if you're just starting your watch, but later on you'll need to read more and more every time. But I'm sure that that'll be fun for you!
Good luck in your watch!
 
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