The companies might not talk about it but it might be well known by consumers like collectors and such? A bit like the watch industry that shares many factories, parts and movements behind the scenes and you can read about all that in many watch maniac forums. Or the car industry again. You can buy a Mercedes that is actually made by Renault including the engine!
I love to separate the facts from the fiction.
Jerry
I usually hate thumb indents because in the past they have never fitted my thumbs. The indents on the back of the MeoStar B1s are an exception and feel super-comfortable.
Lee
The Meopro HD 8x32 are also good thumb indents, at least for me. On other makes, they sometimes push my thumb saddle up into the strap eyelet, but the Meopro's are great feeling in hand. The thumb indent helps using one-handed.
Good to know somebody likes it this way. But I personally never needed thumb indents to hold my binocular.
I don't want this debate to become sort of "anti meopta" in any way as my statement was meant to be more general towards almost all manufacturers. As many binoculars (not meoptas) are mass produced anywhere it might be tempting for the final brands selling them to add a tad too much of their badge design afterwards to make them recognizable for marketing.
It's boils down to personal taste. I like it functional and classic like those Dialyts.
Troubador:
Nice interview, and some interesting answers.
You forgot to ask the most obvious question though: Why on earth is the diopter correction range of their binoculars only +/-3 diopters?
Hermann
The Nighforce ED/HD spotter is a Meopta made, "reskinned" S2. Trijicon binocs are also Meopta made.
Troubador:
Nice interview, and some interesting answers.
You forgot to ask the most obvious question though: Why on earth is the diopter correction range of their binoculars only +/-3 diopters?
Hermann
jgraider, post 50,
What is the source from which you conclude that these instruments are made by Meopta? From the pictures and comments I could not find any information about it, so I am very interested.
Gijs van Ginkel
Troubador:
Nice interview, and some interesting answers.
You forgot to ask the most obvious question though: Why on earth is the diopter correction range of their binoculars only +/-3 diopters?
Hermann
Hermann,
Here is what an engineer at Meopta told me some time ago:
"The dioptric compensation between the eyes, nominally listed as +/- 3D, is bigger and minimum difference we measure is +/- 6D."
I know you need -4d, so you should be fine.
Peter.
This is admittedly just my taste and others might think different. To take another example I think many current cars are über-ugly by design.
I think we are just showing our age my friend. I think the BMW E39 5-series, for instance, is a most cleanly and attractively styled car; but my younger colleagues at work much prefer the looks of the F10 and later models.
It wouldn't surprise me that the pre-war generation who had used things like Galilean binoculars and Barr & Stroud CF41s also thought that Dialyts and Trinovids were modern and zany when they appeared. o