What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic here. We have a listener request, a special request.

James Kane writes, hello vortex, like to hear about using binoculars with eyeglasses

from Mike. A sitting across from me, we got Mike, the optics guru, expert himself, and

eyeglass wearer. Mike, you're wearing them right now.

When I do all the time, I do not wear contacts, I prefer glasses, have always preferred eyeglasses

over contacts. So yeah, I'm one of those people who has to be concerned with eye relief

numbers. Gotcha. On most optics, not necessarily rifle scopes, different reasons why you'd

want long eye relief to avoid getting dinged in the brow. Does, yes, does everybody, does

every person who wears eyeglasses need to wear their eyeglasses when they're using binoculars?

No, but the reason that you would want to is if you're nearsighted like me and you don't

have good distance vision, you're nearsighted, you can see things well reasonably close

to you, but everything beyond say 50 feet is fairly blurry. Okay. So if I'm outside and

I don't have my glasses on, I can't really see what else is going on. I might miss something

in the periphery. I might not be able to see down range across the prairie or whatever.

So I do want my glasses on so I can see things out the distance so I can scan around. But

then yeah, you don't have to. You can still focus binoculars without your glasses on. You

just, you might miss something, but that can be an individual thing depending on how bad

or good your vision is. You just might not need to wear your glasses all the time. Okay.

If you are far-sighted, you might not want to necessarily you don't have to wear your glasses.

When you're, if you are wearing eyeglasses while glassing or you need to, you brought up

the term eye relief. So why don't we, or if you can, maybe give us a little definition

of eye relief and how that comes in to play for a person who maybe is or isn't wearing eyeglasses?

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