bluespiderweb
Great Grey Looking Out
Hey all... does everyone here do this? I almost always open up the barrels till I get the classic overlapping circles (like how an image viewed through binoculars is normally depicted in films). Closing the IPD to the point I get the single circle, for me, makes the view too constricted, and I also feel the distance between barrels is too narrow for my eyes. I have noticed though - with a binocular like my 8x30 Oberkochen (which has quite poor light transmission by today's standards), if you close up the barrels to a certain point the image seems to get quite a bit brighter.
I don't have a particular way to set it, whether opening or closing to it-just til it feels right. I just measured my IPD in the mirror, and then went and measured the BS 10x32s, and they were open a little further than my measured distance. But yes, me too-if it feels constricted, I open it up some to where it feels better-again, it seems this is an individual thing, and so hard to say pat that it should be this way or that, because each of us is different, with different eyesight parameters.
Interesting observation though, Patudo.