Big_Sparky
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How’do! Trust this finds you all well.
Ok - the short version is I’m after some advice on the purchase of a decent monocular - ideally with a budget of around £500 (I appreciate it probably isn’t as straight forward as a £1000 set of binos should be half bat as I’m only buying half....
) .... Anyhoo, your thoughts, as ever, will be greatly appreciated!!
For the keener readers amongst you, or the bored, I shall expand slightly so you understand my thinking. I’m left eye dominant. My left eye is classed as better than “normal” with a score of 6/5 - put it this way - when you go for an eye test - I can read the serial number on the bottom of the chart with my left eye.... my right eye - is probably 6/10 if not worse. Subsequently I don’t really use both of my eyes - as a child (a year or two back now) they classed my right eye as being lazy and I had to wear patches and all sorts of carry on. The weird reality was that my left eye was so good - my right eye just didn’t bother! Anyhoo. There we go. So, basically, if I look through a pair of binos I can end up with a slightly blurry picture as my right eye can’t focus hence I end up closing my right eye and just see with my left eye!
For quite some time now I’ve just used a very old pair of pocket field glasses - they’ve been a fair few places round the world and served more than me very well. However, whilst they’re useful at seeing stuff in the distance (guess it would be silly if they weren’t ha ha) the image quality isn’t as good as I’d like it to be. Stalking out on Arran last week and really struggled to see a red hind sitting amongst ferns and heather which I could see clearly through my scope.
So, in conclusion, I’d like something half decent but it seems foolish to buy a car and then ride around on only two wheels.....!!
Cheers!!
Ok - the short version is I’m after some advice on the purchase of a decent monocular - ideally with a budget of around £500 (I appreciate it probably isn’t as straight forward as a £1000 set of binos should be half bat as I’m only buying half....
) .... Anyhoo, your thoughts, as ever, will be greatly appreciated!!For the keener readers amongst you, or the bored, I shall expand slightly so you understand my thinking. I’m left eye dominant. My left eye is classed as better than “normal” with a score of 6/5 - put it this way - when you go for an eye test - I can read the serial number on the bottom of the chart with my left eye.... my right eye - is probably 6/10 if not worse. Subsequently I don’t really use both of my eyes - as a child (a year or two back now) they classed my right eye as being lazy and I had to wear patches and all sorts of carry on. The weird reality was that my left eye was so good - my right eye just didn’t bother! Anyhoo. There we go. So, basically, if I look through a pair of binos I can end up with a slightly blurry picture as my right eye can’t focus hence I end up closing my right eye and just see with my left eye!
For quite some time now I’ve just used a very old pair of pocket field glasses - they’ve been a fair few places round the world and served more than me very well. However, whilst they’re useful at seeing stuff in the distance (guess it would be silly if they weren’t ha ha) the image quality isn’t as good as I’d like it to be. Stalking out on Arran last week and really struggled to see a red hind sitting amongst ferns and heather which I could see clearly through my scope.
So, in conclusion, I’d like something half decent but it seems foolish to buy a car and then ride around on only two wheels.....!!
Cheers!!
