Binoculars 101: How Magnification affects stability and field of view
Today I'm going to talk about magnification and how a binoculars power (magnification) will impact your experience whilst using it. Please note: For the purpose of this video I’ll be using the terms power and magnification interchangeably. Before I get started let's take a quick tour the relevant parts of a binocular: At the front of the binocular you have the objective lenses These collect light to be sent through the binocular and out through the ocular lenses and onto your eyes The ocular lenses are the ones at the rear of the binocular and which actually magnify the image. Also it is important to mention the physical dimensions of the binocular have nothing to do with its magnification. It is a common misconception to assume that a giant binocular has to be the most powerful and that compacts only have low powers Sure it is common for very high powered long range binoculars to be large, but this is simply because they need to capture more light in order to deliver reasonably bright image and so to do this they need larger objective lenses In this example of two Snypex binoculars, Different in size, but both have the same 10x magnification.