Binocular Vision

• Binocular vision allows people to have greater depth perception.bench image by jamsi from Fotolia.com
  
  Binocular lenses allow for both eyes to be used together when looking through a microscope. There is typically no need to close one eye, as you would when using a monocular lens, and usually there is increased resolution and depth perception when viewing a sample with both eyes.
  
  

Binocular Lenses

• There can be one (monocular) or two (binocular) lenses on a microscope.microscope image by Fotocie from Fotolia.com
  
  A binocular microscope is a light microscope with two ocular lenses. These lenses are located at the top of the microscope and are used for viewing the slide. The light microscope uses visible light and a series of lenses to magnify small images, such as bacteria on a slide; the sample can be observed directly through the binocular lenses.
  
  

Compound Microscope

• The binocular setup is usually seen on the compound light microscope. The multiple objective lenses on the compound microscope allow a sample to be magnified at different strengths, allowing for a more close-up view of the sample.