Anti-Reflection Lens Coatings on Binoculars

In binoculars, anti-reflection coatings are mainly designed to assist with light transmission thus helping to produce a brighter image with better contrast. These days almost all good quality binoculars some sort of these coatings applied to at least some of the air to glass surfaces of their lenses. These anti-reflection coatings are often made up […]


How to Choose Binoculars

Separating Real Features from Marketing Hype With such a huge amount and variety of brands, sizes, and prices it can get more than a little overwhelming when trying to make a shortlist, nevermind actually choose your binoculars and this is made even the more difficult with all the marketing jargon and the fact that each […]


Ruby Coated Binoculars

A common question I get asked is about binoculars with ruby coatings on the lenses and if they are a good or bad thing: The first thing to mention about “ruby” coatings on binoculars is that the coating has nothing to do with the mineral ruby. As far as I know, ruby coated lenses were […]