Do you use objective covers? (1 Viewer)

[Rg548]

Having said that, my brother in law, who is a fairly wealthy chap, is happy to leave his £5,500 Nikon D5x camera, with £13,0000 lens attached, where the kids knock it over, or on the edge of a table etc.
It is filthy, covered in dust, finger prints and dirt on the lenses, never has a lens cap on, and last year he spilt a cup of coffee over it.
It's just a tool to do a job... albeit an expensive one... as far as he's concerned.
But he's rich enough, and not OCD enough to bother him.... go figure🫤

 

[Maljunulo]

When the strap is around my neck, the objective cover is off.

Otherwise it is on.

 

[CharleyBird]

When the strap is around my neck, the objective cover is off.

Otherwise it is on.

Yup, same here

 

[cpupton]

Same here. And when my binoculars are being used for stargazing the objective covers are also always on when not actually being looked through. Dew can be in issue sometimes and if Im switching binoculars or letting them dangle from my neck for a few minutes I use the covers.

 

[AlphaFan]

Another case for the utility of a chest harness - the bino is protected when not viewing.

 

[mbb]

All my binoculars have objective covers attached to them, all tethered. Either the original ones (e.g. for Ultravid 8x32 or FL 7x42) or third-party ones from Opticron.
That is also because I often carry my binoculars around my neck or bandolier style while cycling, without bag. In that case, there is more risk for dust or gravel reaching the objective lenses, or for the binoculars to e.g. ‘hit’ e.g. the bike or so (never happened, but almost did more than once).

 

[tenex]

I realize I should have mentioned in #4 that my non-use relies on having a protective case for transportation. Cheap binoculars (or cheapened, like EL now) that only come with a thin bag would require use of objective covers, at least until some aftermarket case was found. (Camera lens manufacturers get away with that, but only because a preferred carry solution for multiple lenses is assumed.)

 

[murmeltier]

I always have obiective covers and rain/salivaguard on my binoculars when using trekking poles and taking some wood for the stove in these calamitous times of 'The Day Before'.

 

[lmans66]

In the field… no. At home, yes. They help to keep the dust off the lens. Why not use em?

 

[LucaPCP]

I use them. When I go birding I carry a backpack (water, extra layers of clothing, etc). I find binocular cases to be unwieldy (large, etc), so I typically just put the binoculars in the backpack with ocular and objective covers on.

I also use them when biking, to prevent pebbles or dirt thrown from bike wheels from hitting the lenses.
And when hiking, it's very convenient to have covers to avoid dust (e.g., I am birding, and a Jeep drives by generating a cloud of dust).

I don't find a big need for cases instead. I almost always have a backpack when outdoors, I don't want also to bother with a binocular case.