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- From: winer@husc10.harvard.edu (Adam Winer)
- Newsgroups: rec.birds
- Subject: Re: Binoculars Question
- Message-ID: <winer.728073920@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:45:20 GMT
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- mick@dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Mick Farmer) writes:
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- >Paul asks the meaning of 8 x 40 for bins. The 8 is the
- >magnification and the 40 is the diameter of the objective
- >lens. The value 40 / 8 (i.e. 5) is a measure of the width
- >of the field of view. Thus 7 x 42 have a lower
- >magnification, but a wider field of view -- better for
- >following birds through trees relatively close to.
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- I'm pretty sure this is incorrect. The value 40/8 (5)
- is a measure of how wide the image leaving the binoculars is.
- In other words, it measures not how wide a field of view you get,
- but how much light you can see. 8 x 40 bins and 7 x 35 bins
- (everything else equal) give you the same brightness of image,
- but could have completely different fields of view.
- Any ratio over 7 is wasted, because the human eye's maximum
- pupil width is 7 mm.
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