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- From: palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)
- Subject: Re: Reticle question??????
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.170708.3705@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University
- References: <1992Sep14.160703.1669@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:07:08 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Sep14.160703.1669@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu> ja@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu writes:
- >Hello Netters,
- >
- >I'm trying to build a finder scope from half a pair of binocs and
- >I need some advice. I want to put cross hairs in and don't know
- >where to put them. I tried just attaching them across the bottom
- >of the ocular mounting but they were not visible. I know that with
- >microscopes the reticle scales are focuable. Is this just a matter
- >of trial and error getting this thing placed for my specific binocs?
-
- Since it appears you have already disassembled the monocular you can probably
- make the situation no worse, so try the following experiment:
- take a flat, translucent object (a dollar bill or a sheet of paper with
- printing on it should do); hold it up to the light and examine it using the
- ocular as you would a magnifier, with your eye right up close. The position at
- which the paper is in focus is the plane in which your hairs should be placed.
- A monocular forms an intermediate image between the objective and the ocular,
- just as a telescope does. Sometimes this image plane is within the cell in
- which the ocular lenses are mounted, which will make the test I describe above
- more difficult.
-
- Your finder will be unsuitable for use by people with varying degrees of myopia
- unless you have the side (usually the right side) with the eyepiece corrector,
- by the way. The correct procedure for using the monocular would be to focus the
- eyepiece corrector on the crosshairs, and then focus the objective on the
- crosshairs, bringing both them and the intermediate image into the same plane.
- With the objective focussed on the object of interest, viewers with differing
- degrees of myopia would then refocus using *only* the eyepiece corrector.
-
- Leigh
-