David 3174

On 29/08/2019 at 15:21, johnbaz said:

I've two sets of these, Very bright and crisp, Was told they're called Komz!

I was told these were actually made at the Zeiss factory in East Germany that Russia took over after the war!, Have to say, I have a set of 8x30 Zeiss Jena and they're for all the world the same bins!! (And optically theior equal!)..

This set was a fiver! Had to pay and extra three quid for the case as it had a set of other 8x30's in, The receipt was in the case too!

 

This set is much better cosmetically but no different optically!! EDIT, Forgot to say I paid £10 from another bootsale for these!!

The cheaper set came with orange fiters fitted, Seemed like they'd been on from new as they were stuck with decades of gunge!!

 

John 🙂

Just to make an observation about orange filters on binoculars.  I remember reading a very long time ago, in a catalogue by H W English,  that some people had been using their binoculars since purchase with the filters fixed on the eyepieces  -  "Not realising that the orange glow was incorrect".