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Ditto to that , the Andrews 20x80 triplets are from Binocularchina just with the little Andrews name on them and a cheaper housing assemble.
This is what Bino china does for importers.
The 88mm right angle triplets for example can't be sold else where except for Apogee who have exclusive rights.
This happens a lot in the market.
another example is the Orion 80mmED being sold by Orion but could not be sold to other dealers for the first 12months.
Even synta the manufacturer could not sell them for 12months.
As far as the Andrews triplets go there quite light and able to be hand held.
This is due to everthing being plastic including the barrels.
The plastic stabilising rings on the end do bugger all.
Actually once there collimated the view isn't to bad.
That the thing tho about ever third or four time you use them you need to twick the prisims.
Not hard at all and takes about 10secs.
I pulled mine apart as I do with most of my gear and have reblackened the inside.Poorly done from start.
Whilst apart and with out the prisms I tried my Radians with the objectives .
Also did a star test and the objectives are actually dam good for about an f4ish focal length.
Color is about the same as my Celestron(Vixen Japan)11x80's
The prism mounting are pretty crude and the adjuster just pushes against the side of the prism and the base is held with silicon with a spring steel retainer.
This does allow for easy adjustment from the exterior , but lends itself to being knocked out of collimation easily.
If you don't mind fidling with them and once collimated there not to bad for the money.
The coatings are first class with ever surface coated.
The eyepieces look to be five element by the coating reflections.
Actually with the radians in , the FOV was awsome and more than the standard eyepieces.
This has got me thinking of making a 45deg interchangable eyepiece Binocular using all mirrors instead of prisms and the triplet objectives..
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