Anyone Know Anything About Minox Infrared Binoculars?

Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 2:20 am

I bought a pair of binoculars at a jumble sale at the weekend. I assumed that they were just ordinary binoculars but when I got them home I found that they were marked Infrared Minox. They also say9x27x50mm FULLY COATED 75m/1000M AT 9x.
The lenses are reddy orange. I've tried looking through them and I can't see a great deal at night.
I've looked on the internet and can only Cialis Online find digital infrared which have a light worked by batteries. These don't seem to have any batteries or ON/OFF switch.
Does anyone know anything about these?
Are they any good and how do I use them? I want them for looking at birds in my garden during the day really but if I could use them at night that would be a bonus.