On TV and in the Movies the view through Binoculars is represented as a black background with two visible slightly overlapping disks (like the mastercard logo). I just see one visible disk. So to confirm, everybody else sees one disk and does everybody else think the movie way of doing this is just a stupid way of showing that binoculars rather than a spyglass are being used.
Make sure you don't get caught, Tom.
groan... why does a simple question about the presentation of binoculars turn into a discussion about perversion...
Quote from: Viking on January 28, 2010, 07:31:11 AM
groan... why does a simple question about the presentation of binoculars turn into a discussion about perversion...
Because not a lot of bird watchers on the board.
Movies have it right.
Quote from: Grey Fox on January 28, 2010, 07:43:18 AM
Movies have it right.
seriously? two disks?
I only see one disk when I look through binoculars. WTF?
Cause your brain does the interpretation.
If you show 1 disk, then it's a telescope.
Quote from: Grey Fox on January 28, 2010, 08:03:45 AM
Cause your brain does the interpretation.
If you show 1 disk, then it's a telescope.
And your brain does not do the interpretation?
Your brain gets rid of the blind-spot in your eye, so it fixes this as well, but still, what I see is the one disk. What a person looking through the binoculars should see one disk as well.
The lousier the binoculars the more you notice the two discs. I think it's pretty nifty way of handling it in the movies though. How do you suggest they show it? :)
Quote from: Viking on January 28, 2010, 07:31:11 AM
groan... why does a simple question about the presentation of binoculars turn into a discussion about perversion...
Who said anything about perversion? Your tastes could be perfectly natural...
I see only a single image when looking through binoculars.
Quote from: Malthus on January 28, 2010, 09:35:24 AM
I see only a single image when looking through binoculars.
Same for me, one disc. Maybe it depends on the type of binoculars being used?
Quote from: Vricklund on January 28, 2010, 08:18:56 AM
The lousier the binoculars the more you notice the two discs. I think it's pretty nifty way of handling it in the movies though. How do you suggest they show it? :)
I'm in favour of using the single disk, y'know, just like it looks in normal binoculars.
The movie Top Secret! deconstructed this & lampooned it long ago.
I wonder how many people close one of their eyes without realizing it when they're looking through binoculars. I used to do that.
Quote from: DGuller on January 28, 2010, 11:23:56 AM
I wonder how many people close one of their eyes without realizing it when they're looking through binoculars. I used to do that.
Very few, I'd imagine.
Quote from: DGuller on January 28, 2010, 11:23:56 AM
I wonder how many people close one of their eyes without realizing it when they're looking through binoculars. I used to do that.
Probably if someone is new to using binoculars, or doesn't know to adjust the lenses, then they might close one eye to see better, or think they see better that way.
I'm on the right.
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Two images, but I shouldn't be used for typical results; I've got a neurological thing that affects ocular motor control to where one eye kind of wanders unless I'm paying constant attention to it. And before brain or somebody else gets started, I've got it well-controlled to where it would take an optician or opthamologist to spot it if I didn't tell you what to look for.