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Trinovid hype
"Most" men didn't fight in the war (not US at least), and "most" soldiers probably weren't using bins, mainly officers. Hunters did keep using nice sharp Porros. Rather than users giving up the superior optics they knew for inferior trendy ones, I think the rise of roofs had more to do with an... -
Trinovid hype
Fundamentally, late capitalism is all about the power of advertising, so the strategy is really "we can get the market to want what we choose to make", and it worked impressively well here. Zeiss and Leitz raked in the D-marks while Bushnell fumbled around reselling Japanese bins for $50 to... -
Trinovid hype
I think this would make a nice digression in the historical introduction to the next edition of Binocular Handbook. It's really a very entertaining story, and many readers will recall how it affected them, as posts here show. (I bought a new Dialyt 8x30 from B&H in 1989 that one would expect... -
Trinovid hype
A person with "respect for truth" should not be claiming that special "polishing" of glass can markedly improve transmission, or that a cheap plastic bin from China will be "as durable" as a Trinovid. A person with the slightest knowledge of optics should understand why a 7x28 will be brighter...