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Eyepieces have different AFOV, why not binoculars?
I decided to replace my old binoculars (by 'old', I mean I remember watching Kiss on-stage at Adelaide oval with them back in 1980 and we'd had them for a while even then!).
Anyway, they recently fell apart (I'm assuming those two events are not related, lol!) and I was in the market for a new pair. I figure maybe some things have improved since then, like optics, coatings and maybe my taste in music.
The two numbers habitually cited seem to be magnification and aperture, eg; 10x50.
Which is weird - much is made of the field of view of different EP's, but for Bino's it seems to be all about magnification and light grasp.
I was hoping to find something like a binocular version of an ethos or something, with lovely wide views, but it's almost like the EP's in all binoculars are some standard design and so the AFoV is just a function of the other two numbers.
Is this correct?
Cheers
Markus
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