The photo is real. The binoculars are not night vision binoculars. Maybe a rangefinder built in... but not night vision.
This is a pic taken the instant someone puts the binoculars up to their eyes just prior to discovering the lens caps are still on. I know this has never happened to anyone posting in this thread, just like nobody has ever accedently forgot to remove the lense cap from a camera.
...or is it that nobody here had a photographer following them around just waiting for it to happen.
The photo is old. There's one just like it of Clinton. There's probably one just like it of quite a few people.. including the Queen.
Then... there's what people would like the picture to mean.
AKDejaVu