Shrub Demonstrates His Binocular Technique

LOL! Must be a real thrill to go hunting with the prez.

"Now which way does this thing point"?


John Steinberg wrote in message
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http://www.alasinistra.it/satira.html

About a 1/3 of the page down.

Good thing they're stablized.

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Flame *this*, Sparky.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:00:28 -0500, John Steinberg
wrote:

http://www.alasinistra.it/satira.html

About a 1/3 of the page down.

Good thing they're stablized.

Too bad he isn't!

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Chris L Peterson
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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?

Impact9 wrote:

Those are night vision binoculars. The caps have pin holes in them for
using the binoculars during the day.

That wouldn't work adequately. You would have absolutely dire resolution
from pinholes. They must use ND filters and full aperture to be useful
at all. Not much point in using binoculars to degrade human vision!

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?

They might be ND filters, but they certainly look like lens caps!

Regards,
Martin Brown

Night vision don't have to work good during the day. I have some older
night vision monoculars and they have the same cap design. You can see
through that small hole but just enough to make sure everything works.

In Article .com
"Impact9" writes:
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?

The pinholes do enhance FOV too, don't they?

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Slovenia

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:23:50 +0000, Martin Brown
wrote:

Impact9 wrote:

Those are night vision binoculars. The caps have pin holes in them for
using the binoculars during the day.

That wouldn't work adequately. You would have absolutely dire resolution
from pinholes. They must use ND filters and full aperture to be useful
at all. Not much point in using binoculars to degrade human vision!

All the night vision binocs I've seen have pinhole caps for daytime use,
not filters- and yes, the image is poor. But I don't think these are
night vision binoculars. As amusing as the image is (and face it, the
guy really opens himself up to humor like this), it is just one of a
series taken during the same session, and I've seen another picture
taken just a few seconds later with the caps off (see, for instance,
http://www.snopes.com/photos/binoculars.asp). So in all likelihood he
just put the binoculars to his eyes without noticing the caps (who
hasn't?) and some photographer got that first shot.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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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.

Impact9 wrote in message
oups.com...
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?

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.)

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

Snopes has a page on this...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/binoculars.asp

But they don't say conclusively one way or the other.

-Florian