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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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    Versions of the 10x42 SLC

    Please could someone tell me whether there is a comparison of specifications of the various versions of 10x42 SLC's. I know there are several, but I can't find a list comparing them. Thanks.
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    New Trinovid 8x40 VS Zeiss SFL 8x40

    I have been trying to find detailed test reports on the SFL 10x40, but so far there is not a lot. I am disturbed by comments from unhappy customers such as this: "chromatic aberration (colour fringes) intrude when a subject is moved off-centre & the resolution is not as good as the 42mm SFs."...
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    What if you like the SFL 8x40 but don't have the budget for it?

    I have been using a Maven C1 10x42 for four years - mainly on wildlife-related trips I lead to S.E. Asia. I have found it to be excellent in terms of optical quality, build quality and weight. I really hate having heavy binoculars around my neck on hot, humid rainforest treks, especially because...
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    Zeiss SFL 10x40 specific tests or reviews please

    I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say about CA. Most seem to say that CA is negligible in the centre and only noticeable on the edges, but tenex above says that they "have a fair amount of CA if that bothers you, much like Leicas." That would be a deal breaker for me...
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    Looking for Wallace's Standardwing on Halmahera - help needed!

    Many thanks! Did you see many males and were you fairly close to them, with good views?
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    Looking for Wallace's Standardwing on Halmahera - help needed!

    Many thanks! Yes, I visited the lek in Weda on about 4 trips. Here is a photo I took there.
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    Looking for Wallace's Standardwing on Halmahera - help needed!

    I am helping a film crew make a 3 part TV series about the great naturalist and co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. They really want to film male Wallace's Standardwing Bird of Paradise at a lekking site on Halmahera, which is easily accessible and not very...
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    Replacing rubber armor/armour of Trinovid 10x42 BA

    Many thanks! I have sent them a message.
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    Replacing rubber armor/armour of Trinovid 10x42 BA

    I have owned a pair of 10x42 Trinovid BA's for 25 years and they have been on trips all around the world with me. They are still in perfect optical and mechanical condition, and although they look pretty good cosmetically there are three 'problems' which I would ideally like to have restored...
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    My impressions of Maven C1 10x42

    I guess that the Internet gives Maven a global market. However, most people probably won't want to buy their bins unless they have seen and compared them. This is a problem with their business model, as obviously their products aren't sold through shops. In the USA at least, people who are...
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