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ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

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  1. MiddleRiver

    8x32 advice?

    I was wrong: The focuser question was bugging me so I googled it :-] Roger vine does say in his review "it's typical of modern greaseless focusers..." Assuming this is true, they managed quite a feat imho! It feels nothing like UVHD's to me. Maybe it's just a question of adjustment...?
  2. MiddleRiver

    8x32 advice?

    I won't bore you with my list of Leica/Zeiss but yes, I've owned a few <quietly sobbing> My point was simply to clarify that the UV and FL do not have same type of 'mechanical' focus mechanism. The UV series, is very unique in the 'dry' grease-less design AFAIK. So this: "...maybe due to the...
  3. MiddleRiver

    8x32 advice?

    Is this true? I've owned UVHD and FL side-by-side. The UVHD (which I do believe has greaseless focus mechanism) was smooth but definitely 'different', with a little bit of initial stiction. Smooth but not like buttah... which the Zeiss are. The FL's I'm looking at as-we-speak, are silky...
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