binoculars and glasses?

[Stumpkiller]

I'm so near sighted I can see things on the inside of my eyeglasses.  

Look for a pair of binocs with 15mm or more of eye relief and as large an exit pupil as you can afford.  

I don't rely heavily on binocs so I satisfy myself with relatively cheap Bushnell 8x26 Waterproof Legend Bak-4 porro prism pair.  Small enough I can wear them without much added weight or bulk.

[wapiti]

The best eye relief I have had with glasses is with the Brunton Eternas.

[Roadkill]

Learn to use the cups, and practice off season so you are comfortable.  I wear trifocals and can use them handily

Hate those glasses, but .....

[non-typical]

Try Sightron 8x42 or 10x42 if you wear glasses. I liked mine so much I bought an extra pair. A bonus is that the depth of field with Sightron is constant throughout the viewing field, up close or distance is sharp. Lastly, they won't break your wallet.

[ken denton]

Nikon Monarch ATB 8x40 and 8x36 work great just the way they are set up. Ken

[Trumpkin the Dwarf]

I say give the contacts an extended try. It took me a good year before I could wear them consistently but they are all I use these days. Otherwise, I would just get a lanyard for your glasses and take em off to glass.

[ron w]

I wear glasses , have for years, I have a pair of Stieners 8X30 ,I just roll the eye cups down and use them .....no problem!

[Roadkill]

just a random thought.  In the military we were taught to place our thumbs along side our heads to shield the bino-face gap.  I have always found this sharperned the image.  Have you tried that>

[Orion]

I use 8x32 Leica Ultravids with no problems with my glasses.  The eyecups turn out for non-eyeglass wearers, in for eyeglass wearers.  Of course, with glasses, you can never get your eye as close to the eyepiece as you can without glasses so some ramdom light tries to sneak in.  Roadkill has some good advice.

[gringol]

I think the problem with my current binos is that the eye relief is so short I can't get my eye close enough to the eye piece to focus the image.  Thanks for all the input, I'm going to have to find some better binos.

[DayTripper]

I have been wearing glasses for over 30 years. I always pushed my glasses out of the way when I used binocular. You can adjust your binocular to accommodate your vision.

Without your  glasses, focus your binoculars on an objects at least a hundred yard away, the further the better. Once you have the object in focus, close your left eye and adjust the eye piece on the right side by rotating the eye piece clock wise or counter clock wise until the object is sharp. And, voila. No more glasses.

[hawkeye n pa]

I bought a  the small Alaska guide 10-32 binoculars from Cabela's this year after some years of searching and trying.  Best that I've found for me by far.  With the eyecups in the down size mode they work fine with my bifocals. Field of view is reduced a little.

I keep my eye glasses on a cord and can remove them and roll up the eyecups if I'm really trying to glass something.  Not sure why they are better for me than the other ones I've tried.