Since we are moving into a traditional holiday, this weekend, with Memorial Day, it has me thinking of some binocular traditions and how some of them came to be. Not that I expect to change anything, but I do wonder why we have such traditions.
Why, for instance, does Hollywood still, to this very day, show a screen with two partial circles to depict the view when someone is looking through a binocular, when anyone who has ever used a binocular knows that is not correct? Of course, it is unrealistic to expect Hollywood to portray real life, but you would think one of the many people on a movie set would know better. Surely, some of those folks have
binoculars of their own
As an expert in binocular
sales for so many years, I still have to wonder why so many people walked up to the sales counter and picked up a binocular and looked through it, backwards, often exclaiming that optics were very good or, in some cases, asking for a binocular with more power. On the other hand, I have to admit that, when I did show them how to use the binocular, they were all good sports, each and every one, and we all got a good laugh. Binocular sales can be fun.
Last, but not least, why do so many binocular manufacturers still package those cheesy, useless lens cloths with there low end model binoculars? Have they ever tried to actual clean a lens with them? Most of them I have seen actually tend to make things worse and smudge the lens. At the price of a real lens cloth, such as the
Nikon lens cleaner, you would think that they could supply a product that actually works.