The solution: Binoculars with Long Eye Relief.Įye relief is the optimum distance between the ocular lens on the instrument and your eyes when using your binoculars. Whilst this may be fairly small, there is always that once in a lifetime sighting that you miss whilst you were swapping over. The other issue with this is the time it takes. This sounds simple enough, but doing it all the time, over and over again can get really annoying, and then there is always the risk of forgetting or losing them somewhere. The obvious answer to that is to just remove your glasses, put them down or wear them around the neck with a safety cord. The other issue many people have is even if you don’t need to wear your glasses whilst actually looking through binoculars, it is what to do with them whilst you are! If however, you use glasses for other reasons, like Astigmatism you will need to wear your prescription glasses when you are binning, or you will sacrifice valuable image sharpness. This is because the focusing mechanism will allow for adjustment, thus correcting your vision. If you wear glasses to correct far or nearsightedness, you may not actually need to use your eyeglasses when looking through your binoculars at all.
I will try and explain as best I can: It often depends on why you wear glasses: However, you do need to know a few things and be a little careful about what to look in the best binoculars for eye-glass wearers.
The good news is that not only can you wear glasses when you use binoculars but you can get a view every bit as good as those who don’t.
Binocular glasses how to#
A question I often get asked is: How to use binoculars with glasses?, or If I wear eyeglasses, do I need to buy special binoculars?