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> This website collects movie clips with inaccurate binocular shots (i.e., two overlapping circles instead of one, as you would see in real life).

I'm just amazed it never once occurred to me that that's not how looking through binoculars looks. Despite having used binoculars lots of times.

I think it's just the field of view we wish binoculars had...?

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I just picked up some binoculars to test this out. They're pretty good quality yet it is very easy for me to see it through two overlapping circles without feeling that it's misaligned to my eyes. It 'helps' that I wear glasses, so they are not ever snug up against my face - But this really isn't feeling inaccurate to me.

Those sound like... broken binoculars?

I just tried my pair out right now, and there's probably 95% overlap between the two circles.

If you have anything like what is shown in movies, then you don't have depth perception in most of what you see. Binoculars are meant to gave you a single image with depth perception throughout, not two separate images with depth perception only where they overlap.

If you see two distinct circles with little overlapping, your binoculars are not properly adjusted for your eye separation. You should see two mostly overlapping circles.

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