Backpacking Activities: Using Binoculars

Video Transcript

"Now if you bring binoculars with you on your backpacking trip, again, you got to make sure that they are light, but also know how to adjust them. One thing you will have to do is adjust the eye cup. Now I wear glasses, and so this little cup that places the binocular at the right distance from your eye. That doesn't do any good for me because I am wearing glasses, so I have to adjust that so that the cup is brought in, and then I can hold it to my eyes. Then there is an adjustment here where you adjust the width between your eyes. Beyond that there's your focus, there is another focus on just this one eye piece here. What you do is you close the eye of the side that has that extra adjustment, and you focus off in the distance. When you do that then you close your other eye, bring it up and focus this one. What that does is it establishes a difference between the two eyes; nobody's eyes are exactly the same power. So you want to have the binoculars set so it knows the difference between your two eyes and can actually bring it really into focus. Once its set then all you have to do is do the main adjustment and it will focus both of them. If you have any questions give your local outfitter a holler."