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Gordon Rayner
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Re: huge 110mm russian binoculars (pic)
05/10/08 08:39 PM
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The U. S. Navy recently bought some of the Kazan (KOMZ) 20 x 110, with stands. Why, and for what purpose? That is a more complicated ( too complicated) prism setup than the Novosibirsk 15 x 110 under discusssion. Mike Rivkin ( "Deutsche Optik"), Mitch at Sovietski, and Vladimir Wolf, were all selling those two models at much lower prices just a few years ago. Every one I saw had yellowish tint in the images, and were out of collimation .
But the field of the 15 x 110 is impressive, and I did not have complaints about images, other than the collimation and yellow glass problems. That is an elegant design, which deserves better glass and mechanical quality control .
In DK eyewitness travel series "Cuba", a beautifully illustrated guide to travel there, there appears on p. 239 a photo of a mounted KOMZ 20 x 110 ( 90 deg. field, 60 (?) viewing inclination , at an observation post called Mirador los Maloes, which overlooks the U. S. installation at Guantanamo. Perhaps somebody wanted to find out what the Cubans could see, and decided to recommend that the U. S. Navy buy some?
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