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I'm glad that I'm not alone in prefering the view with the naked eye - although I am finding it more and more annoying to have to remove my glasses - the main reason being that without them, my view is rather blurred and so I can easily miss the movement of a bird in the short time of switching views.

The next time I change my specs I am going to discuss this with the optician in case there are alternatives styles of glasses that will work better with binoculars and telescopes.
 
I use a Nikon Fieldscope III ED primarily with the 20x 60 zoom and Swarovski 8x30 binocs. For my face both have eye relief that is too short. So, I have a pair of "birding" eyeglasses that have very small lenses; they are bifocals (although my regular glasses are tri-focals) with the lower part of the lens that is used for close reading reduced to a minimum. They are not anti-reflective coated (scratches too easily).

This allows me to keep them on when using binocs and obtain a full field of view. Also on the Fieldscope zoom they work well. Although, when I'm viewing at 60X and trying to draw the last bit of detail out of the tertials of a far off gull I lift the eyeglasses to get a little better image.

Bob
 
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