What do the numbers mean on my binoculars 8×50 field 6.5 340ft at 1000 yds?
8x means it magnifies the view by a factor of 8 50 means the objective lense is 50mm wide, which is a factor of how much light it lets in and the size of the field of view not sure on the 6.5 340 ft at 1000 yards is telling you how much of the world you see. Magnification is nice, but while you see everything bigger, you see a lot less of the total world than you do with the naked eye. In this case if you looked at a scene that was 1000 yards away, the rightmost object and the leftmost object would be 340 feet apart. If two objects at 1000 yards away were 350 feet apart, you’d only be able to see one at a time.
