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Impact9 wrote:
Those are night vision binoculars. The caps have pin holes in them for using the binoculars during the day. What's funnier the President knowing how to use night vision during the day or the uneducated massing making fun of him because they didn't know that? I wouldn't be surprised if this is a standard joke in the military. You *always* give a senior officer binoculars with the caps on, just so they can look silly ever so momentarily. All the better if it's the commander in chief (regardless of party affiliation). Not that I mind shrub looking silly. :-) Shawn |
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IIRC, there was a similar picture of President Clinton "viewing" the
Korean DMZ though a capped pair of tripod-mounted 100 mm binoculars. They're called photo-ops folks. Some turn out better than others. Impact9 wrote: Those are night vision binoculars. The caps have pin holes in them for using the binoculars during the day. What's funnier the President knowing how to use night vision during the day or the uneducated massing making fun of him because they didn't know that? |
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Chris L Peterson wrote in message ... On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:45:33 -0500, "Dan McShane" wrote: So you`re saying the military uses IR binos in daylight by reducing the aperture with pin holes in the lens caps? My suspicion is you`re makin` it up. He's not. Even the latest and greatest Gen4 night vision binoculars still look pretty horrible compared to the most modest ordinary binoculars. The military doesn't ordinarily use night vision binoculars during the day at all. But pinholes in the caps are a simple way to let them be used in bright light in a crunch- far easier than some ND filter scheme. I've used several different pairs of night vision binocs, and all have pinholes in their caps. (BTW, night vision and IR vision aren't the same thing, as I'm sure you know.) Not saying the military doesn`t do it in a pinch, as you suggest, however according to the folks at http://www.opticsplanet.net a pinhole in the dust cover is not recommeded and indeed may damage the detector. |
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The manufactures put the pin holes in the caps.
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A) They're night vision goggles. There are pin-holes in the caps. Who looks
dumb now, eh? B) The communist party emblem in the upper left hand corner of the page was interesting. |
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"Dan Moos" wrote:
A) They're night vision goggles. There are pin-holes in the caps. Who looks dumb now, eh? Shrub, for later taking the caps off? Tim -- This is not my signature. |
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The most powerful man in the world, after Bill Gates, at the head of
the most powerful, most expensive armed forces in the world and they can't find him a normal pair of binos for the event? I own half a dozen pairs of ordinary binos myself and I'm a complete nobody. They only had to ask and I could have sent him a pair over for the day. Nah. He can find his own. (With a little help from his friends) ;-) * Chris.B |
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The most powerful man in the world, after Bill Gates, at the head of
the most powerful, most expensive armed forces in the world and they can't find him a normal pair of binos for the event? Yeah, but why would you want ordinary binoculars when you could try out the latest in nightvision/stabilized/whatever those are?=20 -Florian |
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