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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 3516620" data-attributes="member: 56622">Yes I looked at the video.  After Phil's comment I looked at it again.  It is still a crummy video.  There are a couple of things here.  First and foremost he comes across as though those eye cup adjustments are something for everyone.  However even though you can increase fov with less than full eye cup extension, you can also increase veiling glare to the point of making the binocular distinctly unpleasant to view..  Most people I think need the eye cup fully extended.  I'm one of those.  I will always,every day of the week and twice on Sunday opt for whatever eye cup extension works for the most comfortable use of the binocular.  If that is an insignificant fov decrease, so be it.  I will be a more effective glasser if I do not have to worry about dealing with glare issues induced, or worsened by too little eye cup extension.  So will, in my opinion, most people.  You have to get the eye cup adjusted for however the binocular is most comfortable to use.  He saying crank it down.  Sorry I disagree.He is correct about cold mornings and warm faces.  I think you are nuts if you think that cranking down the eye cup assembly will remove fogging issues.  All you do is to increase the difficulty of holding the glass far away from your face that you can see anything.  A medium setting with application of the MOLCET technique will be a better cure.  I will point out here that using a binocular that I have to fiddle with the MOLCET angle is not ideal and typically won't own one where i have to use that.  It is however, at least in some circumstances, preferable to fogged lenses.That would have been better served to look at the focus issue starting with just how do you set up the binocular focus for each eye for you.  He just blows right past that point first thing.  That is the single most often misunderstood and misused facet of binocular use.  Starting there, and then going into the fact every face is different and talking about the various binocular adjustments. He is right about every binocular having a particular eye relief and field of view. Cranking down eye cups to increase fov is not a cure for most people.  Yes it can increase fov, but it may also increase user difficulty, unless your particular eye favours that setting.</blockquote>

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