I was thinking about buying a new set of binoculars in the 8-10x range and ran across a video about monoculars and it got me to thinking there could be some pros and cons to going down that road. Does anyone use a monocular and care to comment?
Hi Corvid_hunter.I was thinking about buying a new set of binoculars in the 8-10x range and ran across a video about monoculars and it got me to thinking there could be some pros and cons to going down that road. Does anyone use a monocular and care to comment?
I was thinking about buying a new set of binoculars in the 8-10x range and ran across a video about monoculars and it got me to thinking there could be some pros and cons to going down that road. Does anyone use a monocular and care to comment?
For years my friend and I rode dirt bikes where we sometimes needed an optic to look for problem places up ahead (before we got ourselves into troubled water/sand/mud/rocks/etc.). He always had a monocular with him. It was actually just a small cheap(ish) fixed-power rifle scope. It had an aluminum tube, not plastic, and it had OK glass. We didn't need a range finder and we sure didn't want to carry a heavy-assed binocular, so the cheap scope was perfect and could be carried anywhere in our bags or larger pockets. It might have been a scope that got busted by mounting it on a spring-piston rifle, but it still worked for our purposes.I was thinking about buying a new set of binoculars in the 8-10x range and ran across a video about monoculars and it got me to thinking there could be some pros and cons to going down that road. Does anyone use a monocular and care to comment?
Yes, field of view is important for this use case. I wear glasses, so I need a lot of eye relief and a large exit pupil. The fairly inexpensive Vortex 8x42 Crossfire binos make it easy for me to acquire a target and keep it in focus. 10x binos will fail my 2-second test every time. I think compact binos (like 8x32) would probably fail for me also because of the smaller exit pupil (not sure though, since I haven't tried them).I been doing that ,plus birds in flight for over 40 years,I am good at it.I used to go to air shows,plus watch the Blue Angels fly at Fleet Week and also the Travis AF Base air shows and watch the Thunderbirds, I love that stuff. Field of view is so important.The roar of engines and Bag pipes makes my hairstand straight up.