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Old 17-05-2009, 06:59 AM
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"Periscope" type eyepiece is what is used on binos, only Porro prisms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porro_prism) are used instead of mirrors (to erect the image).
Why would you want to do this? As Chris already mentioned, the optical path is rather long in assemblies like this.
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