Canon

They say no one knows optics better than the guys at Canon. Being a major brand name in photography and printing and document reproduction markets, when Canon entered the binocular mainstream with its own binocular line, today’s present stature of binoculars only heightened more with Canon and their vast expertise on optical imaging.

Maximizing clarity and enhancing performance, it’s been longtime a Canon creed. If you’re familiar with Canon and several of its high end products, especially in photography and printing, you won’t be surprised how effective Canon’s optics expertise can be when it comes to binocular and lens technology. So far, it’s only with Canon and its binocular products you’ll encounter features like Image Stabilizer, Super Spectra Coating and Doublet Field Flattener.

Here’s the rundown of these trademark technologies:

The Image Stabilizer
Imagine looking at a moving object several yards away. You could either be watching the progression of a football game from the uppermost stands, or else checking the lead horse on a race circuit. Binoculars can be a poor recipient to such objects of observation that watching them through a binocular could get pretty stressing to your eyes. That is because of the binocular lens’s focus, which might not be adapted to the constant motion of the object. Other factors include shaky hands due to anticipation (yes, especially on that horse race) and the cold. These produces blurred images, and when your eyes force itself to adapt to the image it gets tired easily.

The Image Stabilizer Technology of Canon serves to ease out these problems of blurred details. It’s a concept taken from the camcorder line and adapted to boost performance on the Canon image stabilizer binoculars. Featuring the Vari-Angle Prism (VAP), this prism design is made to adjust precisely the visual path through the binocular lenses thus maintaining a completely stable image. It senses miniscule movements and realigns in a fraction of a second. So whether you are on the stands watching the football match or trying to follow the faster activity of horses in the circuit, the Image Stabilizer will give clearer and crisper focus you’ll never find in other binocular brand names.

The Super Spectra Coating
Light is the cause why we see objects. On poorly, dimly lighted conditions, we barely see objects. The same goes with binoculars only that, binoculars suffer the greater effect than our eyes. So in low light situations, like at dusk or dawn, we barely see on our binoculars.

The Super Spectra Coating is designed to ease that light difficulty. With the Super Spectra Coating on the lens, more light are absorbed into the chamber thus affording better sight even on low light conditions. A normal uncoated lens can reflect as much as 8% of the light in the surroundings, that’s the reason why looking through binoculars seem to be darker than the surroundings.

The Doublet Field Flattener
Some of the Canon binoculars make use of the Doublet Field Flattener lens in its eyepiece assembly to afford the viewer a wider field of view plus extraordinary sharpness.

Several of the Canon binoculars are already benchmarking designs when they entered the market. Like the Canon Stabilizing Binoculars 10x42 L IS WP which has seen heavy use in naval procedures. This is Canon’s first ever completely waterproof IS heavy performance binoculars that have UD (ultra low dispersion) lens that can afford excellent correction for chromatic aberration. Large bright lens with 4.2mm exit pupil diameter affords the best view even on low light conditions.

As of today, Canon and its products has become the yardstick wherein all others are measured. That is because of Canon’s long history of expertise in the field of optics and imaging, the one aspect binocular theories can have make good use of.