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    How to easily extend binocular eyecups.

    The washers have a contact adhesive on one side. It is easy to remove from the eyecup rubber if you need to. If bits of the glue don't easily come off, then use masking tape to remove them.
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    O-rings for eyecups

    Try this method I developed perhaps: How to easily extend binocular eyecups.
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    How to easily extend binocular eyecups.

    I have a pair of Maven B1.2 binoculars which I rate very highly. However, when I used them in the field for the first time on a recent month long trip to Indonesia, I was annoyed to find that I kept getting the kidney bean effect, no matter how carefully I adjusted them. I worked out that I had...
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    Buying Maven binoculars in the UK

    Yes, but firstly, the Maven B1.2 are probably the best in their price bracket (see the many reviews on the Web), and second, the Maven warranty is one of the very best that exists. It is a lifetime, transferable, no-fault guarantee - so if your binoculars were run over by a car they would repair...
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    Buying Maven binoculars in the UK

    Yes, I guess. So many videos on YouTube of people unboxing things. I personally don't get excited by it at all LOL! The Maven B1.2 10x42 I bought are excellent IMHO. I can not see any difference in terms of sharpness, colour rendition, brightness or CA between them and my Zeiss Victory 10x42 T*...
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    Buying Maven binoculars in the UK

    I found another Maven dealer in the UK (unless it is another website run by the company I already mentioned): Maven - Binoculars
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    Buying Maven binoculars in the UK

    Maven's business model of direct to consumer seems to not apply outside the USA, as there are now Maven retailers in the EU, Australia and the UK. The UK one is Nature Observation UK (Maven Optics) and the others are Maven Binoculars - Optics-Trade and The Modern Hunter Australia I live in the...
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    Maven B1.2 10x42, my thoughts.

    I have been using Maven's C1 10x42 binoculars for four years and have been very impressed with them. Because of Maven's amazing lifetime no-fault warranty, I take them with me on the wildlife tours I do in Indonesia, rather than risking my 'Alpha' binoculars, which are no longer in warranty. The...
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    Maven in the UK?

    This UK business is the UK's supplier of Maven: Maven - Binoculars Maven's business model seems to have changed as there is a supplier in Australia as well.
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    A comparison of prism types, and why the Schmidt Pechan seems to have won the premium binoculars

    Absolutely - everything that I have read suggests this. And don't many of Zeiss's current binoculars have such a construction?
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    Year of Manufacture?

    And thank you for the outstanding job you did a few years ago, renovating my Leica Trinovid 10x42 BAs a few years ago.
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    Year of Manufacture?

    Thank you very much indeed - I really appreciate the information!
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    Year of Manufacture?

    Hi Gary. I would be very grateful if you could tell me when the following was made: Zeiss Victory T*FL 10x42, Serial No. 3468605. I recently bought them in the UK and it seems they were originally sold in the USA. Thanks!! Shame Zeiss doesn't put their serial number database onto the Web, to...
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    Versions of the 10x42 SLC

    Thanks John.
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    Versions of the 10x42 SLC

    Many thanks John!
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