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Old 18-12-2018, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Merlin66 View Post
Re Zeiss binoculars...
I have a pair of Dekarem 10 x 50 (#1 Quality marked) Carl Zeiss Jena -DDR
and according to the serial (#3854821) built around 1967.
I won't embarrass anyone by saying what I paid for them.....
A friend of mine, who's a militaria fanatic, gave me 3 pair of German military issue WWII Zeiss 10x50.
Varying degrees of wear and condition.
I've tried using them for astronomy and terrestrial, but the separate eyepiece focusing for looking at anything, makes them effectively unusable for me, as I'm badly shortsighted in the right eye, and slightly long sighted and lazy eye in the left. So getting the 2 eyepieces in sharp focus on anything, every time I want to try to view anything in them, is a very prompt exercise in frustration.
Right now, I'm blowed if I know what I'll wind up doing to them.
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