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Vintage and Classic Binoculars discussion (Part 2)

Started by Richard McC , Jan 26 2012 08:07 AM

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#251 Simon S

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 11:30 AM

I must say that a pair of my Sards with the eye cups removed is far far nicer to look through than the pair with eye cups.
It is very difficult to see the field stops with the eye cups installed.

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#252 Simon S

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 12:22 PM

I wonder if someone can help me. I won a pair of mint Swift Audubon's the original 804 model complete with nice case.
But the RH bridge is snapped at the hinge, any idea where I can find one?

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#253 alsendk

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 02:10 PM

Hi Marco, how can I be sorry to ask, when you,- among others here return my question with a fine, and an easy to understand explanation,that make sense to me.
Thank you
Allan

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#254 rydberg

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 05:38 PM

Hi Allan:
It is just sometimes I have the pedantic habit of explaining of how to make a clock when someone asks simply "what time it is" :grin:

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It comes from being a teacher, I guess.
Glad of being helpful.
Marco

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#255 Pinewood

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 08:20 PM

Hello Tim,

That binocular is probably the same as a former neighbor used, when we were looking for a bright comet, twenty five years, ago, in Brooklyn. I recall that it was a Universal Camera 6x30 USN glass. I own a similar US Marine Corps binocular.
Incidentally, Universal Camera made some unique cameras, including the half frame Mercury, before WW II.

Happy collecting,
Arthur Pinewood

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#256 BillC

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 10:47 PM

“Sorry BillC
accomodation means bolig = housing in my language, and gives no sense to me, are you always so short in words ? :O)
but thank you anyway for your explanation.
Allan”

Dear Allan:

I am sorry; I have been very busy. I am also sorry that you are probably not a native English speaker. If you were, I would have a wonderful time beating that college Pu . . . I mean, honored PhD—who never writes me anymore—Marco like the proverbial “red-headed stepchild.”

But, I won’t; I’ll just think it.

Anyway, the particular accommodation I was peaking of was one noticed by Jae.

With the greed for dollars going up, as the consumer knowledge of what makes a good instrument going down, many manufacturers are simply pumping stuff out the door without the concern for collimation that once ruled the industry. As one corporate head told his national sales team: “Binoculars are not to look through; they’re to sell!”

One of the reasons I tried so hard to get a thread going on creating a new, light-weight, inexpensive system of 3-axes collimation was so amateurs could address these issues. However, after 4 attempts to stay on track, I’ve given up.

Cheers,

BillC . . . humbug, bah!

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#257 alsendk

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 03:50 AM

All forgiven BillC.
What you write this time, gives me a reason to actually like my old timers binuculars even more...counting 2 NVA`s 7x40, one IOR Valdada 7x40, and a terrific BPO Baigish 7x30.
Thanks for your input dear curmudgeon=gnavpot
Allan

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#258 rydberg

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 05:53 AM

Gnavpot?
I like that

Red headed? I wish...
I am only white now.
Marco

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#259 BillC

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 12:18 PM

"I am only white now.
Marco"

That's why I said "LIKE."

"Like" is a wonderful word; if you (like) took it (like) from today's (like) vernacular, (like) many of our citizens couldn't (like) communicate!

Bill

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#260 Simon S

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 09:06 AM

A nice example of a Lietz Marseptit 7x50 arrived today. the binocular is is great condition, not a mark on the lenses and has dark blue coatings, also in unmarked condition.
Field of view is narrow, though central image is pin sharp and bright. The image does seem to soften somewhat towards the field-stops , something a narrow field binocular should not portray.
Matching the date of this binocular through its serial number is difficult, but this model was manufactured between 1932 and 1962 , when in 1954 it sold for $162 and in 1961 $235 !

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#261 steve@37n83.9w

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 09:31 AM

Nice looking bino Simon. What material are the eye cups? Rubber? Bakelite?

Steve

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#262 Simon S

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 10:05 AM

They are a bakelite material that seem to have faded with age.

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#263 alsendk

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 10:21 AM

A nice find Simon.
Are Leitz part of Leica in any way?

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#264 BillC

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 10:52 AM

Two divisions of E. Leitz merged several years ago and the Leica name was chosen for both.

I'm not Simon . . . I just play him on TV.

BillC

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#265 alsendk

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 12:12 PM

I`m shure you would look good on tv BillC, and thank you for your answer.
Then Kern company Switzerland is implemented into Leica as well, to my knowledge...just bought two bin`s from there, one named Kern Arau, and the other Leica...both alike, with no visible changes to see,after the takeover, - but the 1064nm laser filters, and the reticle annoyes me a little, becouse of a brownish mis-colouring inside the tubes, for which i blame the filters to do, but it`s only my guess though. Otherwise they are both fine glasses, and very handy in size.

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#266 Pinewood

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 01:28 PM

Are Leitz part of Leica in any way?

Hello Alsendk,

Ernst Leitz was an optical firm, owned by Leitz family. Formerly, they were the second largest manufacturer of microscopes in Germany. In 1914, one of their mechanics developed a camera using 35 mm film. By 1924, the camera was produced by Leitz, using the name Leica [LEitz CAmera].
There are three different firms formed from the Leitz corporation, all using the Leica name: sports optics, including cameras; microscopes and geo measuring devices. If I recall, before the firm was reorganized, the sports optics division started using the Leica brand name.

Happy collecting,
Arthur Pinewood

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#267 alsendk

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 02:41 PM

Thank you Arthur,for enlightening me about the Leitz/Leica brand.
Especially the Leica cameras was my boyish hope to purchase some day, in order to shoot pictures like Bresson and Eisenstaedt and Capa....now in the digital age, it appears to be of less importance which camera you have, I believe?
still the Leica X1 looks so good and effective...very off
topic btw :O(

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#268 Pinewood

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 06:25 PM

Especially the Leica cameras was my boyish hope to purchase some day, in order to shoot pictures like Bresson and Eisenstaedt and Capa....now in the digital age, it appears to be of less importance which camera you have, I believe?
still the Leica X1 looks so good and effective...very off
topic btw :O(

Hello Alsendk,

It was my boyish ambition, as well. I purchased in a 1938 Leica, in 1963, which I still own. I also managed to meet Eisenstadt.
I suspect that the imaging device on digital cameras are incapable of realizing the resolution capable of the best lenses.
Incidentally, Leitz was making prismatic binoculars by 1914, but far fewer than Zeiss. The Leitz 7x50 Marsept and Marseptit binoculars are very highly regarded, although their coatings are rather out of date. I bought one, in 1979.

Happy collecting,
Arthur