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    Let’s talk about eyecups (comfort, dimensions, preferences, etc.)

    Usually, Swarovski's have pretty comfortable eye cups in general. Sometimes I just prefer the old rubber fold down eye cups like on the Nikon E2.
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    Let’s talk about eyecups (comfort, dimensions, preferences, etc.)

    Me too! I was thinking of something like that.
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    Let’s talk about eyecups (comfort, dimensions, preferences, etc.)

    Or like when the dentists make a night guard for your teeth to keep you from grinding them at night. They make an exact plaster cast of your teeth which fits perfectly. As Pileatus says above, though, you can use your hands cupped around your binoculars to form eye cups that conform to your face.
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    Let’s talk about eyecups (comfort, dimensions, preferences, etc.)

    What we need is custom molded eye cups that are made from a mold of our face and eye sockets, then it would fit our face perfectly.
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    Let’s talk about eyecups (comfort, dimensions, preferences, etc.)

    The Bino Bandit serves the same purpose and will help fit a binocular to your eye sockets better than many eye cups on binoculars because the soft foam conforms to your face.
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    Let’s talk about eyecups (comfort, dimensions, preferences, etc.)

    There is no doubt you have to accept the idiosyncrasies of the Habicht's to use them with the small eye cups, occasional glare and tight focuser, but for me the surreal light transmission, superb on-axis resolution and 3D are worth it. I go back to a regular roof prism even like my Noctivid 8x42...
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    Let’s talk about eyecups (comfort, dimensions, preferences, etc.)

    The MOSFET technique works for me with the Habicht 8x30W.
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    Let’s talk about eyecups (comfort, dimensions, preferences, etc.)

    Eye cups are so variable on binoculars, I have just reached the point where I deal with them by using different hand holding techniques to compensate for size differences and lengths. The manufacturers are not going to supply different size eye cups, it would be too much trouble. I am not going...
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