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- From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Subject: Re: binocular question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.224035.29762@saaf.se>
- Organization: SAAF, Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening
- References: <1992Dec29.160250.4981@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 22:40:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.160250.4981@macc.wisc.edu> bunner@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Dana A. Bunner) writes:
- >In article <199228.4258.20565@dosgate>, "michael daly" <michael.daly@canrem.com> writes...
- >
- >What I was trying to point out that if your eyes do indeed have 7mm
- >dark light pupils, resulting in pupil surface area of 38.48 sq mm of
- >surface area, and you illuminated them with a 3.125mm image, or 7.67
- >sq mm, then you are using just 19.9% of your eye's pupil surface area.
- >Of course none of the incoming image is being wasted. Your eyes would
- >be capable of processing far more light than you are providing to them.
-
- On the other hand, if the exit pupil is considerably smaller than the
- size of your eye's pupil, then light creating the image on your eye's
- retina will pass only the central parts of your eye's lens. This will
- improve the sharpness of the perceived image, since your eye's lens
- is not very well corrected for lens aberration at its edges.
-
-
- >I agree with your comments about not necessarily needing 7mm exit pupils.
- >If someone had just 5.5mm pupils then the surface area of the pupil drops
- >from 38.48 sq mm to just 23.76 sq mm. This would also be true if your
- >primary viewing area is not dark. Light from nearby street lights might
- >result in your pupils not expanding to their maximum size. At this point
- >one has a dilemma. It's nice to have those 50mm objectives for light
- >gathering, yet it is difficult to hold binoculars above 7X steady (for
- >many people).
-
- There's an easy way out of this dilemma: put the binoculars on a tripod!
-
- If you insist of not using a tripod, and if you therefore don't want to
- use a larger magnification than 7X, and if your eye's pupil never gets much
- larger than say 5 mm, then you should get a pair of 7x35 binoculars instead
- of a pair of 7x50 ! The 7x35 is significantly lighter, and thus easier to
- hold steady, which means you'll probably end up seeing more with the 7x35
- than with the 7x50.
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