Opera Glasses For True Theater Close Ups

Contemporary opera glasses take you directly to the actor or singer's facial expressions, a musician's fingering, a costume detail.

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Formal Dress Accessory. Traditional theater or opera glasses are an elegant accessory to formal dress. Several companies, such as Barska, Praktica, and Swift, still provide them, either with an ornate finish reminiscent of the Victorian era or a modern, deconstructionist interpretation.

Technology Flair - Built In Light For Program Viewing. Opera glasses are modern optical instruments, of course, and some models have small built–in red flashlights for discreetly illuminating your program. You may also find lorgnette-style opera glasses from time to time (as well as those other optical accessories to help with reading the program – lorgnettes and pince-nez), especially in the antiques market.

Companies To Know About. Other companies, such as Canon, Nikon, and Pentax, offer sleekly styled modern opera glasses that are no less elegant than the traditional style.

Small Room Low Magnification. What sets opera glasses apart from other binoculars is the fairly low magnification. You want to bring the scene closer, but you don't usually want to focus on one small target to the exclusion of the wider field of view. However, there are zoom models that allow you to do that if you want to.

Pocket Size Alternatives. Several companies, Minolta, Olympus, Steiner, and Zeiss among them, don't provide opera glasses in the traditional sense, but they do offer pocket-size compacts, some of which fold up quite small, that you can use for the same purpose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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