I managed to use contact lenses when I first took up birding but after a
year or so my eyes rejected them so back to glasses - anything with a good
eye-relief is fine and of course you will not be constantly changing the
mechanism.
I use multi-focals and they work fine - I also got a pair of cheap single
focus for birding but too much effort to keep swapping them!
On 19 July 2012 12:35, Bill Stent <> wrote:
> Arwen
>
> I use glasses with my Nikon Monarch 8x56. These (heavy) binoculars
> have a pretty deep eye relief, and also have screw-down eye cups, so I
> never screw them out, just leave them where they are. This way I can
> hold the bins to my glasses, and the deep eye relief allows me to
> still see the whole field. After a day's birding my bins get pretty
> grotty though, with lots of cup-prints on them.
>
> It depends on what your eye problem is, though. Many people with
> simple long- or short-sight can take off their glasses when viewing
> through bins, and adjust the focus accordingly. If you're like me,
> and have a pretty bad astigmatism, that's not an option, as you can't
> correct for that in the bins.
>
> I wouldn't think that multifocals would be any good while using bins.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Arwen B. Ximenes <>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear birding-aus glasses wearers,
> >
> > Numerous headaches later (especially following birding outings!), I have
> now been told I need glasses, not uncommon in those approaching 40
> apparently!).
> >
> > I’m interested in hearing what set-up birders prefer. (I have bins with
> screw down eye cups).
> >
> > Are multifocals good for birders? (and what its it like to use the
> fitover glasses whilst birding?)
> > What would you go for?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Arwen
> >
> > .........................................
> > Arwen Blackwood Ximenes
> >
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