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How to Buy The Right Binoculars For You by: Duane Brown Binoculars are wonderful pieces of equipment that can enhance many of our daily activities including, birding, action sports, hunting, and even astronomy. Essentially binoculars take a distant image, enlarge it through the use of lenses for viewing, all while remaining small and light enough to be mobile. The actual makeup of most binoculars is fairly straightforward and simple. You have the lenses at the end of the barrel called the objective lens that gathers the light from the distant image and focuses it on the lens closest to your eyes for viewing. Binoculars are really two small telescopes put side by side so that you can view the desired image with both eyes instead of just one. This imparts some measure of depth of field, much more so than with a single scope. When selecting a pair of binoculars you will immediately find that two numbers are used to describe their capability. These numbers are often expressed as '6 X 30' or something similar. Let's break the code so you will know what these numbers mean. The first number refers to the magnification power of the binoculars, or in other words how many times the image is magnified. So if the number is '6
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