Binocular / monocular question

trashcan

trashcan

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O.K. here it is...I can't look through binoculars without going cross eyed and seeing double. Embarrasing.
Over the past 26 years I have tried all kinds and brands, adjusting all the knobs and gadgets on the binocs I'm using, but for some reason I cannot get the single field of view that aparently everyone else on the planet can. I always end up looking through one lens with my other eye closed. Does anyone else have this problem or any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong.
I have had my eyes checked and have good vision in both eyes. I have seriously been thinking about switching to a monocular instead of bionoculars. Maybe I can get one of those old school brass ones and look like a pirate while I am hunting, ARRGGGGH!!! Thar she blows off the starboard side of the stand!!!).
Seriously though, any thoughts would be appreciated.

Trashcan
DCC
 
Hmmm, not sure what to say. I adjust the interocular distance until I see one circle by pivoting the individual barrels on the hinge.
 
trashcan, you GOT to be doing it all wrong..well, maybe.

Suggest that you whip over to your local optometrist/optician with your binoculars and let him measure your pupil distance and help you get set up. Folks in my area have been helpful with shooting glasses...I'm old and wear progressive lenses..wound up with two(2) pairs of shooting glasses with focal point on strong eye- one for rifle and one for pistol and regular distance correction for weak eye and no bifocal or progressive corrections for either eye.

Eye patch with that pirate scope?
 
You are looking through the wrong end. Turn them around. If the bino's make everything look far far away. Turn them around. LOL Just kidding. I have only had that problem with one pair of bino's and they were from my kid kocking them out of the truck onto concrete.
 
I did the same thing till I bought a expensive set on bino's and spent some time with them every night for a week to tweak them now they are great.Don't let anyone take them and also mark the adjustments on them just in case someone picks them up and spins the dial on you while you are not paying attention.
 
Sounds similar to my problem. There are many binoc's I can't use because I am, well,,,, "Wide between the eyes". Seriously, center-to-center (inter-pupillary distance) is large enough that I can only open many binoc's out all the way, and still only see one and one half circle. I have even looked through demo binoc's, bought a pair, and got home only to find the ones I paid for didn't go as wide as the demo's!
Just a thought and good luck.
Mark
 


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