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    Need help identifying my Zeiss Jena Marineglas 6x30 binoculars

    Hello all, I received from my grand father a pair of binoculars. They are Zeiss Jena Marineglas 6x30 Serial number is 718118 or 718116 I’ve attached some pictures I found some info online but none of the pictures I’ve seen so far look exactly like my model! Thank you heaps in advance for your...
    • sophietayl
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    • 6x30 antique binoculars jena marineglas zeiss
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    • Forum: Binoculars
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    [Help needed] Huet 8x30 binocular

    Hello, I recently got a pair of huet 8x30. There is a ring that turns the reticle inside the right lens, I unskewed the skew on it. Now I can't put back in correctly. The right ocular would not extend or retract.
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    Tasco 7800 trinocular binocular/camera hybrid

    Just received this in the mail and thought it might be interesting as a curiousity for fellow members - the only thread where this has been mentioned: https://www.birdforum.net/threads/feedback-please-on-bin-camera.389741/#post-4001936 The FOV is 9.5degrees 7x20, the central lens is 110mm...
    • kimmik
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    • antique binoculars tasco trinocular
    • Replies: 24
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    New member - Bolo from Texas Hill Country. I watch birds using a circa 1940 Hensoldt-Wetzlar Jagd-Dialyt 7 X 42 binoculars and I found there are m

    I watch birds using a circa 1940 Hensoldt-Wetzlar Jagd-Dialyt 7 X 42 binoculars serial # 693354. I found there are members of the Bird Forum who have this binocular or similar. I am in search information or a users group for repair of these old binoculars. They are quite stiff to operate...
    • Bolo
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    • 7x42 antique binoculars hensoldt weltzar
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Binoculars
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    P.G.Wodehouse on birding, and general question about birding history in the UK

    I came across this amusing bit in the last of the Jeeves novels, in which a birdwatcher plays a minor character. (He goes out seeking after Clarkson's Warblers in the vicinity of his beloved, so that he might catch sight of her through his binoculars.) This had me thinking—all these stories take...
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    Vintage Binoculars Help

    Hello I recently bought a pair of vintage binoculars in an antique shop in LA. They are a pair of Hensoldt Weltzar binoculars, they are 8x24. They are also marked Wacht and Germany 52210. I only found a pair on eBay that were around $40 but they had problems w/ one optics. I guess I am really...
    • VF.
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    • antique antique binoculars binoculars hensoldt hensoldt weltzar wacht weltzar ww1 ww2
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Binoculars
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