My first bino - 8x30 Baigish BPC Russian Binocular [with a little secret...]

8x30 Baigish BPC Russian Binocular [baigish means in Tatar language "Owl" as this bino is produced in Kazan Optics Factory in Tatarstan Republic in Russia where Tatar language are also spoken aside from Russian; BPC stands for "Binocular of Prism Central in Russian"]

I bought this from market in Black Sea port city of Constantza a couple months ago with price of 100 lei [that's about 25 pounds] I was very excited to meet a Russian binocular, though there were other binoculars there even bigger ones I could have got I decided to get this after testing each ones, this one seemed to had the clearest and sharpest image and I also wanted it to be portable as I wanted to use it in the daytime as well to observe the nature and spy on the neighbours etc [j/k]. I'm to this day very content with it and use it more often even than the newly acquired telescope, as I'm nearsighted and I prefer to take off me glasses when viewing through both bino and scope, it helps me a lot to locate the objects I want to see.

I'll also tell a secret for those folks who sees this.. [not so proud of it, nevertheless it hasn't changed my fondness towards this bino].. When I got this Russian bino because I was so excited naturally I wanted to know everything there is to know about it, and when I was checking the manufaturers website [www.baigish.ru <<they've english version as well] I noticed some slightest discrepency between my model and the model that was suppose to be mine. I've then took a picture of my bino and e-mailed to the manufaturer in Russia with serial numbers, and other details, asking to clarify that it's genuine... to my fear, however, they've confirmed that unfortunately it was not "one of their product" and told me that it probably is a conterfeit bino produced elsewhere, from People's Republic presumably.. and I was really disappointed to know that my bino were probly made some thousands miles away from the original site somewhere in China, I almost was gonna get meself from the Baigish manufaturer the same, but original bino [my girlfriend strongly opposed saying it's waste of mone y not understanding the almost scholar-like curiousity of mine to know and compare the difference between the counterfeit and the original] and almost came this close to make the buy but in the end my GF proposed to me that I buy a telescope instead and she was willing to put some extra capital from her side as well as we live together and she was also interested in the astronomy a little so I agreed to her proposal and two weeks ago we got our first telescope. Anyways, as for my "Russian" binocular, I'm really happy with the performance those chinamen from the factory there done a real good job [long live them!], the only difference I believe is that, it doesn't have the leather used on bino holder and the case where original does, but that's no turn off for me. This is the pic of this lovely bino of mine and the same pic I've sent to the manufacturer in Russia; handsome - isn't he? And I have no intention of getting another one as long as this one is functional, I'm very content with it, though I told me GF that if this bino ever goes bad, I will then get the original exact same model from Russia then!