Ep. 138 | Riflescope Diopters - Everything you ever wanted to know
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2020
- Christian Benson, first time guest of the podcast and also one of the optical engineers on the team here at Vortex, joins Jimmy and Mark to talk all about diopters. This was originally set to be a simple 10 Minute Talk about how diopters work, but a quick call down to the engineering team for their approval, followed by a very complicated explanation over the phone about how diopters actually work, made us realize it requires a full length episode for sure. So, what is the diopter on your riflescope, how does it work, how do you set it properly, how is it tied in with your parallax, what’s the difference in how it works with LPVO’s vs high power scopes and way, way more! The optical engineers are fun guys to talk to for sure and we hope you enjoy this one. Want to hear more from the optical engineers? Hit us up in the comments!
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Very helpfully that cleared that up in my mind thanks guys
I also have used the diopter to mainly bring clarity to the reticle. For a few reasons. That is the normal instruction and you can then see the hashmarks clearly for hold overs. And some long range shooting instruction, such as that from Ryan Cleckner (1st Ranger Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment Sniper Team Leader) you want to focus on the reticle and not worry about the target, so much. This settles you down and makes better shot.
However, this episode made me realize that you change the diopter setting to focus on other stuff. You give up reticle clarity to get image clarity, a smidge, like for finer detail of an object. Really important, I think, for second focal plane scopes. Most of the FFP scopes have a parallax adjustment. Like you were describing Ryan's different settings depending on usage goals.
Long time viewer/listener, and love the show. I support pretty much everything about this channel, but when you start going after Mechanical Engineers, that’s WHERE I DRAW THE LINE!
Haha! Mark's expression at 35:43 is hilarious!
You guys are legends, from NZ
Very interesting
Once you see CA, you can't unsee it.
Two years late I know, but I have a printing background and the four primary colors that are used are cyan, black, red, and yellow to make most colors and the way those colors are aligned to produce an image and it's color will forever make me sensitive to CA because there is always some redish type color that seems to not align with perfection in most scopes, at least the ones I can afford anyway. it is a curse!!
When looking through the eyepiece, why do some scopes appear to have a really minimal frame (like looking through an O-ring) whilst others have a larger frame (like looking own a tunnel). Is there a trade off in achieving the minimal frame?
Another brilliant podcast! :)
Question - If I shoot at mainly 25 yards, can I set the eyepiece dioptre at that distance by first focusing the PX at 25 yards (i.e. getting the target as sharp as possible and then adjusting the eyepiece)? I understand from the podcast that this may mean tweaking the PX and dioptre several times to achieve a sharp image in both.
Not sure what that would mean to the actual PX setting though - would the target image potentially move in relation to the reticle with head position?
Excellence
Hi, one thing Im missing here in this podcast is information if I should set diopter with one or two eyes open? And is this the same for optimizing diopter on 1x or 6x?
Is it normal for the diopter to wiggle and the reticle move with it? I have a 1-6 strike eagle and whenever I adjust the diopter my reticle wiggles as I put pressure on the eye piece....
What would be the chances of seeing a scope in real life exploded view. All the pieces laid out and explained by a mech engineer how they go together and how they interface together? I realize most people probably listen to this podcast more than watch it but it may be interesting for us TH-cam viewers to see. I’m only asking cause I’m really tempted to figure out how to disassemble a cheap scope to see all of this.
We'd love to do it - just need to do it the right way and without giving up any trade secrets to any of our optics. We could probably do it with one of our more basic scopes, but then you don't get the chance to see some of the really awesome stuff happening in the higher end ones. Oh well - would still probably be worth it!
Does vortex do night vision?
Do variations in station pressure change your ideal diopter adjustment from day to day? Sometimes I'll get my reticle 'just perfect', and I'll go back a week later and be like WTFunk?
Thanks now I feel stupid
I looked up CA.
Why did I do that..
These guys winging it. Lol.
thats beyond stupid to say we see in 1 power, what you see is what your brain interprets, the size of the image on your retina is not really relavent. for your eye to be 1 power then the image on your retina would need to be the same size as the object you are looking at....you see at way less that 1 power, what dictates what you can see is eye resolution not power. its too bad there are so many people making videos of scopes that don't really understand optics