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Utilizing Military Grade Binoculars and Optics for Hobby Purposes

A great pair of binoculars is very hard to substitute when you're enjoying hobbies like deer hunting, bird viewing and a large number of other outdoorsy sports. For as long as these hobbies have been around, man has been looking everywhere for the greatest set of binoculars they purchase from a store. Now, there are are a large amount of brands that develop advanced technology binoculars aimed specifically for the hobbyist, but none of them quite equate to the great craftsmanship of genuine military binoculars.

It really makes sense though. Military binoculars have to be used each day in battlefield scenarios. To work the best, these binoculars are required to be solidly made and give to the user the fullest visual clarity possible. They have been designed to hold up against any harsh condition you can come up with, from deadly frigid temps to the baking warmth of the middle-eastern desert.

They also have been designed to keep moisture, sand, and grease out. In reality, you plainly won't be able to find a better set of binoculars. Those little accessories have been constructed to hold up.

The military style features can be quite convenient likewise. Long-range zoom capabilities and anti-glare capabilities create a product that is one of the most advisable decisions you could make.

You could find you need to spend a tad bit more cash on them, because, let's be honest, they really do have a ton more research and design work behind them.  But talk to anyone who owns a set of their own: Those fantastic devices are the perfect selection!

You are going to come across these sophisticated tools at any of the many military surplus stores which are placed anywhere in the nation, or as an alternative, you might just order a pair over the web to find exactly what you have been looking for.

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This guide by Alberto Maeses. Check out military binocular and then military marine binoculars to inquire more info on this subject.

Binoculars zoom lenses?

Everybody is saying don't get zoom binoculars, but what if you want to zoom your binocular in and out of an object that's probably too close or far away? I'm planning to purchase the nikon traiblazer 10X50, but I'm afraid if there's no zoom, it will serve no justice. This is my first time purchasing a binocular, and I've been doing alot of research but everything is sill a little unclear? I'm using it for star gazing, bird watching etc.. Is 10X50 good enough even-though there's no zoom? Also, it has a 292 ft wide FOV.. Is this good enough? I read that the wider the view, the more distortion it will probably have.

A 10x50 is as good as you can get for normal binoculars.
You can get astro binoculars much bigger but they are no good without a proper mount and they are uncomfortable to use on normal tripods because they are much shorter than telescopes and the tripod head just gets in the way at high elevations, so you get a binocular mount which is expensive to buy, or you make one.
Here are some typical parallelogram ones for astronomy.
Sitting down time. Don't faint.
http://www.bigbinoculars.com/pmounts.htm . . . .
10x50s are much more practical and will give you great views of the sky and they are excellent for birdwatching. They do quite well when it's dusk, when a lot of birders are looking out for birds flying home or getting settled for the night.
Here's the stuff about image brightness by day or night, magnification,etc. see the list of myths on the right. Coatings are very good these days so the argument against them in the link really is out of date, but all the other myths are explained very well.
http://www.birdwatching.com/optics/myths2006-9.html . . . . .
This is a very good site for explaining everything in a simple but accurate manner...everything you need to know
http://www.aoe.com.au/binocular_guide.html . . . . .
Finally, before spending loads on those Nikons, have a look at some Helios 10x50 for half the price and see if you can find any difference in the quality of the images.
We all see with our own eyes.
However good the sound from a loudspeaker is if you're hearing is bad the speakers just won't sound their best to you. Obvious.
It's the same with binoculars. Leitz and Swarovski may give brilliant sharpness but can you see it?
At 10x you'll have a job seeing anything like as good as the image is in the finest binoculars because the level of sharpness is greater than the eye can see.
The lenses are that good.
One benefit you get with nearly all the top ones is a flatter field right out to the edge, but we don't see the whole field at once anyway. We can't see 50-60 degrees wide as most binocular fields are and see it all sharp at the same time whether we're looking straight out of our eyes or through a telescope or binoculars. The eye wanders round the field to see all there is, with or without using binoculars.
Try it.
Look at the wallpaper or the view from the window and actually notice how much of it is sharp when you stare straight in front of you. We see it all sharp when we're not conscious of our eyes' workings because our eyes are wandering all over the place.. When we see something interesting towards the side of our vision we turn to look at it better, to get a sharp view.
It's the same when you look through an eyepiece. Your eye wanders over the field, not seeing it all sharp at the same time though we get a general impression of sharpness or curvature in the whole field.
Tiny changes of focus are all you need to compensate for a curved field in most cases and it becomes automatic with one finger on the focusing wheel anyway, so save the money.
Mostly we just move the binos a bit to centalise the bit of something interesting we noticed towards the edge of the field, just as we turn our heads to see things more sharply in day to day looking at things.
You pay a lot of money for that extra sharpness and flat field......
Many cheaper binoculars are not far behind in practice, and some of them are just as good for practical use as the top drawer stuff costing hundreds of dollars or pounds, that you'll leave behind more often than not for fear of spoiling them.
I have Helios 7x50 and 10x50, a Meade 15x70, a 20x80,and several other Binos.
Helios 10x50 are the ones I take out with me most times.
Helios binoculars also regularly get "Best Buy" in binocular reviews for astronomy and birdwatching.
Scroll down for some decent 10x50s at a good price.
http://www.firstlightoptics.com/products.php?cat=104 . . . . .

Zoom binoculars are just no good for decent viewing.
The image you get won't be anywhere near as good as in those Nikon binos or the Helios or even much cheaper ones.
Basically, zoom binoculars are crap, unless you want a show-off ornament to boast about.
Better to buy some proper binos and you'll get much more use out of them.
You'll soon get fed up with the zoom efforts and get sick of the field narrowing as you zoom in and images that let you actually see more at lower powers because the images at the high end of the zoom are so poor..
10x50s reign supreme for practical binoculars that cover a lot of uses, and good ones needn't cost a fortune.
Have fun looking.

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