Binos for a high prescription.

[puddleglum]

Hi all,

I am extremely nearsighted (-10.5 and -11 for anyone who knows that that means), and also have a decent astigmatism, and optometrists haven't found any contacts that work for me. I always wear glasses but, thankfully, I am just barely correctable to 20/20. I have "ultrathin" or "featherweight" lens material, but they still are very thick in my prescription. They also need a few different coatings. All this means bit of light is getting blocked by my glasses. Due to my eye shape, I have a lot of floaters which, for those who are not familiar, are little fibers in the eye that move around as I move my eyes. They appear as transparent shadowy little strands, which can effectively "darken" my vision a little bit.

I need a pair of binos for whitetail hunting in eastern WI. My understanding is eye relief is important for glasses wearers. Deer movement is mostly at dawn and dusk, so low light performance is important, and I am working with lower light transmission to my eyes, for the reasons above.

Looking for recommendations for low light binos with a nice long eye relief, sub $750.

I am thinking something like an 8x42 would be about right. I see there are also 7x50 binos, which would have a wider exit pupil. Is this true in practice, or more of a case of "in theory" not in practice?

Thank you,
-pg

 

[LCguy]

Here is a good resource, this guy measured the eye relief on all his binos

Usable eye relief in binoculars

I just finished measuring usable eye relief on virtually all of the binoculars in my collection. See https://binocular.ch/the-pinac-collection/#collection , then click on any binocular in the collection that you are interested in, to find the eye relief / usable eye relief data in the...

www.birdforum.net

 

[nm.otter]

Ask your optometrist about the possibility of an undercorrected set (full astigmatism, some diopters off) of contacts. If you can make that work with semi-functional near-ish vision, a pair of generic glasses and a twist of the knob on your sport optics might work.

 

[wyoguy]

I'm a glasses wearer, the zeiss conquest HD version haven't tried the HDX, Leica Trinovid and Maven B1.2 have been some of the best for eye relief and middle end glass I've found for me.