An eye on monoculars

Between no sense of smell and blind in one eye I think techmoan is trying to become a cyborg through 80s Japanese tech with these videos.

As you were going on a cruise you could have worn a pirate eye patch and just got a telescope, yo ho ho me hearties.

I love the idea of a vicar looking out a church window and seeing a man sitting in a car with an assortment of telescopic equipment pointing straight at him and thinking he was the target of some sort of espionage plot.

Mr Techmoan, I used to watch your videos religiously when I was younger, and for some reason just stopped, this was about 6 years ago. I'm so excited to have found your channel again, looks like I have 6 years of videos to catch up on!

Ah, and thus the weekend begins… That first one reminded me mostly of Star Wars and Luke’s desert binoculars.

Dude, first the Smart car, then the Toyota IQ and now the Honda E. You have an incredible taste in cars, love it!

Hey Matt, sorry to hear about your eye issues. I know how you feel. Ever since I got an infection in my left eye, I've had all sorts of junk floating around in my vision. And it gave me astigmatism. I used to be able to use binoculars just fine, but not so much anymore. This was really helpful. Thanks for making a video about it.

Greetings from the coast of Norway! You didn't even tell us you were stopping by!

I'm legally blind and before laptops and later smartphones come along, a monocular lens was how i viewer a presentation at school, university or work. First laptops bevoming common made it more acceptable for the PowerPoint slides to be shared with me, mostly. Even in 2024, printed copies of textbooks are some companies only form of copy protection which is just incredibke to me. Anyway, monocular lwnses were a big part of my life

You can put a monocular on a phone camera lence, I did it once and took a photo of a train about 5 miles away. Crazy.

I was low-key obsessed with Monoculars as a kid/teenager. Yeah I recognized that regular binoculars were objectively better, but something about having a much more compact little thing to carry around with me meant I'd get much more use out of it than a big set of proper binoculars.

I've owned the Minox one for more than 15 years now and it is always with me when I travel. I love the quality of the optics and the build quality. I agree that the focusing mechanism is super sensitive, but during the years I developed a grip and method that works and I barely notice it anymore. However a less sensitive method of focusing, would be better and it is it's biggest fault. After all these years and many trips in different suitcases and pockets the quality of the optics is still as the day I purchased it new in Frankfurt airport and I really appreciate that.

Oh wow. They are a lot more affordable than I had feared. I always want to carry binoculars when hiking, but I never do because they are so bulky. These look like the perfect solution.

We used small hand held monoculars in Sea Cadets on the rifle range to spot our own targets, then once we got a team going we had the Navy send us proper tripoded spotting monoculars.

Just letting you know the algorithm is working on this one. Was suggested to me despite not looking up anything really related to this, but i liked the content and subscribed. It is oddly very relevant to my needs.Thanks

Biologist here: Binoculars and Monoculars in perticular are great „in the field/wild microscopes“. You just turn them around under look the other way through them. The specimen. e.g. your finger with a stuck thorn, has the be very! close to the lens (as close as you would be with your eye). Your eye has to be close to the front lens as well. The close the better. This goves you a handy 6x to 8x magnifying lens.

Monoculars are so underrated. With the right advertising, these would sell much better than they do.

9:52 Now thats a great shot, nice one.

I'm sure we've seen that Church before. Eventually it'll end up with a blue plaque, "Techmoan was here."

The binoculars section of Japanese department stores are massive, and there are lots great binoculars still being made for the domestic market.