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The seller on eBay had 10-12 pairs when I bought mine. Clearly they are vintage even if they are like new, so I recommend them here. I am surprised that these bins are so light and sharp and in winter when glare and over-blue-ness is a problem, I will switch out my Yukon 16x50x for this bin. The 3 inch long (75mm) main center bridge seems like it could withstand dropping without coming out of alignment. They have CF and a nice grippy pebble coating. They are made extremely well, razor sharp and lightweight with magnesium housings. Remarkably the bins came from a group found in the old East Germany, and were all NIB. The yellow glass problem is there, and the literature was for the German market. I recently bought a pair of Russian Fotem 15x50 bins with literature marked 1972. I'm used to yellow filters that help the view on overcast (too-blue) days, and Hensoldt NDX4 filters from Hensoldt for desert bins, but polarizers designed for a bin are very helpful on over-bright days. This filter set improves the view dramatically on bright/glare-y days. Speaking of which, the polarizing filters that came in the kit with the Pentax 9x30 roofers I mentioned above are sheer genius. Usually light transmission isn't a big problem for birding during the Spring/Summer/Early Autumn seasons so coatings aren't always important and less light transmission is sometimes easier on the eyes. I have always been surprised how well SARD views were when they used nice coatings on their 7x50s in the late 40s and 50s. Even the vintage Baigish 8x30s are super sharp and according to Holger Merlitz the KOMZ 7x30/10x42-10x40s are about the sharpest bins he's ever seen, so don't discount the Russian bins. Sometimes old craftsmen took allot of time grinding lens sets that worked incredibly well. For viewing birds in arboretums or aviaries I don't find a huge difference between single and MC. Did I mention the older Fuji Meijis because they are super nice too.Īs far as vintage bins and image quality goes, I find that most of the Nikon porro bins like the recent SEs are much better than any roofer ever made and I'm not alone in that judgment. The size of the image really starts to get small-ish for me at 6x (although my 6x30 FMTR Fujinon is fabulous for astronomy, because a star should be a point and so a 6x point is just as good as a 7x, 8x, 9x or 10x point). But it is the 7x35 and 8x30 sizes (+ a few 8x40s) that have huge fields of view.Speaking of Canons and wide views, check out the Canon 6x30 with the magenta classic Canon coatings. The 10x50 W I like is either the Yukon 10x50W or the Zeiss Jena Dekaren 10x50 MC 1Q if you can find them and afford them. See below a big reason why this Pentax roofer is nice for me. The old Pentax roofer 9x30s are surprisingly good for tiny bins I can put in my jeans pocket when I'm running out to the back pasture with a shovel because so fool let his stallion pony loose, it's in one of my pastures (thus the bins) trying to get to my quarter horse mares, and my Arabian stallion will kill the little SOB pony. They actually made my grab-&-go shelf by the back door because there aren't many small-ish 9xs (9圆3s don't count), and they have a very wide FOV. I own a pair of the above mentioned 9x35 Stellar brand porros and they are very good. (one of which is cracked, anyone have a replacement set?) Great optics, Lietz has a longtime reputation for quality optics.I am back for a short time before the pear harvest. Aluminum objective, leather grip, and bakelite eyecups. Leitz, Wetzlar 6x30 Dienstglas binos with the H/6400 markings. Please post your German military binos, I think it would be a nice compliment for this forum. The presence of a rangefinding/direction reticle is marked externally with the "H/6400" marking, denoting angle increments in mils (360 degrees equals 6400 mils, a more accurate system which is used in artillery plotting primarially) I would liketo build a collection of these.Īs you likely know, they evolved from commercially marked, and later had three letter codes for the manufacturers (e.g, blc, cag, etc.) Materials, finish, and configuration changed over the course of the war, but the design remained largely consistent. Tying in to my interest in rifles with optics is my interest in binos and such. One of the most useful and important pieces of field gear for combat is the field glass, or binocular.