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Guys,

If you haven't seen the movie, I highly recommend you do so, at earliest opportunity. Awesome footage of special warfare stuff, and pretty good story as well. The live fire tracer scenes are worth the ticket. Anyway, in the scene where the SEALs are doing the recon on the smuggelers switching their contraband to a different aircraft, they had something over their bino and camera lenses that looked like pantyhose nylon material. This would cut glare when looking into the sun, but how would it affect the image?

forepaw

try it!

it will cut the amount of light entering into the scope, so in low light dawn/dusk it might make a difference, but the "stuff" is so close it is impossible to focus on and you will not see anything there. The image entering the objective is focused into the eyepiece in a manner that any part of the object can be covered and the full image will still be seen, just with less light, hold your finger in front of the scope, and block off 3/4 of the area, you won't be able to tell where the fingers are.

I think the material is not so much to cut down the glare to the scope operator, but reflection off the objective making the "sniper" detectible to the enemy. They make much more complex inserts to do that, basically a hollow honeycomb type of thing.

Poole

Won't effect it at all. You can do the same with a number of expedient devices.