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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kabsetz" data-source="post: 1470976" data-attributes="member: 10167">For me a solution that works well is to place a grey/black obstruction in front of the idle eye, some 1-4 inches away. In my former scope I had a plastic 50mm binocular objective cover attached to the eyepiece with some ungainly wire to take care of this. My current scope, the Fieldscope 82 ED A, does not need this since the eyepiece hood of the S.O.C., which fastens in place with velcro strips, can be velcroed to point to the side when viewing so that it blocks most of the field of view of the idle eye. I modified it a bit by turning the eyepiece hood inside-out and gluing velcro on the 'outside' of the fastening tabs. So, now the hood is black instead of green and works perfectly. Variations of this system can be used with many other scope/S.O.C combinations, such as Swarovski ATS or Kowa 883.Kimmo</blockquote>