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User friendly with glasses???

chumchumchumchum Member Posts: 847 ✭✭
edited April 2008 in Ask the Experts
HI, I always seem to have a problem with spotting scopes and binoculars with my glasses. Do any of you guys know brands that are user fiendly. I always seem to have a hard time getting a full field of view. Also, does anybody know if the style of glasses makes a difference, I'm about to get a new pair.

Thanks
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  • swearengineswearengine Member Posts: 1,308 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Leica works very well for eyeglass wearers.
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  • idahoduckeridahoducker Member Posts: 740 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Steiner and Leupold have worked well for me with glasses.
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  • 22hipower22hipower Member Posts: 619 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sure can identify with the problem as I wear glasses all the time too. Don't know that you can ever get quite the full field of view but I'll second the Leica recommendation; I've had good success with their 8X30s. Swarovski's 10X42 has been very good too. Both are kind of expensive but I've found the dollars spent for quality glass have been worth every penny.
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  • Wolf.Wolf. Member Posts: 2,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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    Don't some of the binoculars have little eye-relief cups that fold out, providing a few millimeters of eye releif, for use with eye glases and then can be folded down out of the way for users without eyeglasses?
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  • chumchumchumchum Member Posts: 847 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks guys, I have a pair of Steiners and still have a problem. They are at the top of my budget. Does anybody know if the size or shape of glass's len makes a difference?
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  • gunrepgunrep Member Posts: 41 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    All binoculars have a "perfect" distance for optimum eye relief and field of view. Try a pair of Leupold/Wind River Cascades they have three position eye cups to get you the correct distance.
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  • FEENIXFEENIX Member Posts: 10,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to have similar problem (esp on riflescopes) and take my glasses off to look through them, esp when my glasses are wet fogged up. Problem and frustration solved when I switched to contacts (understand it's not for everyone) many years ago.
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  • CS8161CS8161 Member Posts: 13,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Wolf.
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    Don't some of the binoculars have little eye-relief cups that fold out, providing a few millimeters of eye releif, for use with eye glases and then can be folded down out of the way for users without eyeglasses?


    You got it backwards, fold the eye cups in when wearing glasses, and out for no glasses.
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