Carson Optics X-View Monocular

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Of all the optical instruments we carry at Spectrum, perhaps the most underrated is the Carson X-View Monocular

Why underrated? Monoculars tend to get the short shrift in the optics world. Telescopes, binoculars, and even microscopes often get pages and pages of reviews covering their various strong points and shortcomings, but monoculars seem to just get […]

Night Vision Now Available from Spectrum Scientifics

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Spectrum has now added a line of Night Vision Monoculars, Binoculars, and Day/Night instruments. Many of these items have free shipping! We start by looking at the basic line:  The NONEXGEN-W  is a basic, lightweight night vision monocular with an excellent entry level price.    The NONM4X-MR is a step up in both quality and is also completely weather-proof! Excellent for boaters […]

Toolbags in Space!

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You probably heard about last month’s space mishap where an astronaut ‘lost’ a toolbag while working on the International Space Station. Strictly speaking, its not ‘lost’, we know exactly where it is. Its just that nobody can get to it.
What is really interesting is that here on Earth people can actually view the toolbag with […]

Eye Relief, Eyeglasses, Binoculars, Telescopes, and You

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When customers come into out store to look at binoculars they like to give them a test by looking through them. As might be expected many of our customers wear eyeglasses and ask ’should I take them off’ just before they put them up to their eyes.
The answer is a resounding ‘It depends’.
It depends on […]