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Old 02-05-2008, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller View Post
I'm interested in the phrase 'a true binocular'. Is this meant to imply that a binoviewer doesn't give a 40% increase in image contrast? I have a WO binoviewer and I'm sure it increases image contrast, but I wouldn't like to estimate by how much.
Yes thats what I intended to say. I spent a fair bit of time with a 12" binocular in the last year and comparing to a beamsplitter binoveiwer , I don't see nearly as much contrast improvement. I think its to do with the brain needing two completely differnt optical signals.
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