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#10MinuteTalk - What is “Apparent Field of View”, and Does it Matter?

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Optics, Sports, Vortex Nation Podcast, Long Range, Rifle, Scope, Gun, Vortex, Binoculars, Riflescope, Shooting, Vortex Nation, Hunting, Wilderness, Vortex Optics

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Apparently, there’s a lot to know about “apparent field of view.” Good thing we have optics guru Mike McDowell to explain it to us! As per usual, Mike dazzles us with information that’s fun, interesting, and useful. Tune in to get tuned up on an often-overlooked optic feature/calculation.

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0:00.0

What is up everybody, Jim to my right, across from us, we have optics expert, birding expert,

0:10.0

bug expert.

0:11.0

Mr. Mike McDowell, Mike, it's great to have you back on the podcast again.

0:15.0

Thank you.

0:16.0

Happy to be here.

0:17.0

What's a bug expert?

0:18.0

You.

0:19.0

Oh, okay.

0:20.0

A Mike McDowell.

0:21.0

He's got to set a vinyl on his shirt right now.

0:22.0

Oh, yeah.

0:23.0

Yeah.

0:24.0

We're going to talk about something today, Jim, that apparently, I know very little

0:29.9

about.

0:30.9

And that's a parent field of view, which is a thing that Mike knows a lot about.

0:37.7

And he brought some charts, some graphs, some math, a really big calculator.

0:43.2

And MC Ryan hooked him up with like, I'm going to call this an electronic dream board.

0:48.2

So Mike's going to be able to draw some pictures on it.

0:50.2

That's a good way to share it.

0:51.2

I've already tested it out.

0:52.2

It does.

0:53.2

It does in fact work.

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