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Recent content by Bino Steve

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    Chronology of focus wheel styles & eye cup styles?

    Yes. Used to be S&A Boston. They used some French made binos
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    What view of a bird do you need to consider it "Checked/Ticked" off list?

    Great input so far. For me, other than for folks with vision handicap, it would have to be seen. It is called " bird WATCHING " after all.
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    Hartmann Compact collimation

    I second that, remove beauty ring first always before coming to conclusions. If still no other ring then perhaps find out if there are prism tilt screws first before messing with those rings.
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    Chronology of focus wheel styles & eye cup styles?

    S & A Boston. Had one. Made in France.
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    View through binoculars

    Is equivocal a species of bird ?
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    Chronology of focus wheel styles & eye cup styles?

    I bought because of the stellar reviews on these types of forums. And I like a good vintage bino. Mechanically it was nice, optically nice, just not fond of the color rendering.
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    View through binoculars

    Thank you for your congenial nature... I will now diminish and fade into my workshop.
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    Chronology of focus wheel styles & eye cup styles?

    Glad it worked for you. I expected to get a good price. Sold for a measly $38. Guess not that desirable anymore.
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    Has build quality diminished? Optics are superb but the housing, focus, . . .

    The issue I see with binoculars comparisons of quality is that It hasn't been that many years that you were holding a miltary grade bino or a Zeiss or Japanese JB unit, or maybe still use those occasionally. What other product out there today can you get nearly identical performance out of the...
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    Chronology of focus wheel styles & eye cup styles?

    Thanks for the additional information. I did a side by side of my 804R, Triton, Saratoga and Nighthawk, all rendered unfavorable compared to naked eye and compared to other binoculars of similar vintage. It may be just my preference, but I at least would like it to match my naked eye...
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    Chronology of focus wheel styles & eye cup styles?

    Great reminder of that thread Ed. I've run across it before. Not to diverge from Charlie's question, buy I recently sold my 804R. Didn't get the WOW out of it I was expecting for such a revered instrument. I've found all the Swifts I've owned tend to render color bluish gray, so have sold.
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    Chronology of focus wheel styles & eye cup styles?

    If you go over to miniaturebinoculars.com, I think catalog #7 mfgs starting with letters O to T, there are several Swift catalogs in pdf on there. Maybe you can recognize the models you have and it will give you clue to the years. Good luck.
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    View through binoculars

    "Thue-Morse is fascinating, compared to my/our search for ASCII character values. Even some sports are thinking of adopting it." Hurts my head reading about that, and I took some C++ classes....... oh well, "here birdie birdie birdie...., nice birdie..."
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    Stopping down a binocular

    If you can design it either digitally or drawing it, a cap with precise holes in it is perfect for 3D printing. There are many places online that with take your design and print you one-off samples pretty cheap. Try out different diameters that way.
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    best birds seen whilst working

    Side thread....." Best Bird seen right after you got fired for looking at the Best Bird you've seen while at work" !
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