Binoculars for Glasses Wearer

[Wertherman]

Hi all,
Looking to get my dad a pair of binos for an elk or mule deer hunt next year he wears glasses and struggles with having the press binoculars into his brain while he has tried to use them.

Any one here have the same issue and have found binos that have worked for them? I listened to a vortex podcast on the subject and found eye relief may be the the culprit.

Very new to this world so all advice is welcome.

 

[RockAndSage]

Hi all,
Looking to get my dad a pair of binos for an elk or mule deer hunt next year he wears glasses and struggles with having the press binoculars into his brain while he has tried to use them.

Any one here have the same issue and have found binos that have worked for them? I listened to a vortex podcast on the subject and found eye relief may be the the culprit.

Very new to this world so all advice is welcome.

Honestly, the easy-button would be contact lenses. I do a lot of glassing between chest binos, tripod binos, and spotter - the only way to deal with that in general has been to set up the diopter focus without the glasses on at all. Glasses go up, or hang around my neck, while in the optics. Rifle scope is set up for use with glasses though. Overall though, it would be much easier without glasses. So, lasik, or contacts.

 

[LCguy]

I use Nikon Monarch HG 10x42 with no problems with my glasses on.

 

[Wapack]

Zeiss conquest HD work well with the eyecups all the way in. The cups seem short on that model.

 

[voltage]

All binos suck with glasses. Eye cups aren’t proprietary.

I have had glasses the last decade, and hated every minute of it between the fogging up and the awkward bino fit. I got LASIK in January, and this year was awesome. Worth every penny.

 

[TimberHunter]

The Zeiss SF 10x32 has 19mm of eye relief. Hard to beat when you wear glasses


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[Wapack]

The Zeiss SF 10x32 has 19mm of eye relief. Hard to beat when you wear glasses


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I’m going on and on about eyecups and your post just made me realize that has zero to do with it. Eye relief!

 

[Rockchuck]

Nl pure 10x42 has been a huge improvement for me as a glasses wearing hunter. The usable eye relief paired with the eyecup design was a stark a difference in any bino I have used before.

I used to wear tiny wire rimmed glasses that were closer to my face for hunting to have better use of the available eye relief, but the tradeoff was more frequent fogging that with my larger normal use plastic rim glasses.

The pures allow me to wear normal glasses and get a full view very easily with a lot less fogging of my glasses.

One knock is the focus wheel seems to move too easily on the pures, but still well worth the trade off as a glasses wearer.

This has been my most impactful gear upgrade in many years and that is saying a lot as I am an admitted gearhound, like many others here on the slide!

They are expensive, but deals can be had if you are willing to search around a bit.

 

[North61]

People with almost every face geometry can make use of binoculars with an honest 18-20 mm of eye relief when wearing glasses. A few people with with really deep set eyes and big brow ridges might have trouble even then, but if your Dad is not a Neanderthal 18mm-20mm should work fine. Not every-company measures eye relief the same way. Swarovski EL's with 20 mm are a dream for me but the Vortex binoculars in that eye relief range work for me too.

If your Dad has a simple prescription he might be able to glass without glasses. If you are simply near sighted you can use the focus to correct your vision. I have astigmatism...without my glasses I am magnifying the distortion of my eyes. I can't fart around with contacts in the wilderness...some people can, I can't manage it..so glasses and binos with 18-20mm are my huckleberry.

Here is a link someone posted on this forum of a guy that measured the actual eye relief on a wack of binos. I find that I can get by with 17mm of actual eye relief. That's almost always found only in a few binos as they tend to overstate the actual eye relief distance good luck

The PINACOLLECTION – Binoculars Today

 

[rickjames80]

It's not popular, but as a glasses utilizer I prefer 8x bino's. FOV is considerably better and I don't miss anything with the lower magnification. If I'm going to use the spotting scope I will pull my glasses off though