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Kevin Purcell · Apr 28, 2009

It appears to come from mostly needing to name divisions of optics companies that do both binoculars and spotting scopes. And then trying to give a succinct name to them leads to that rather bland title (that of course pleases no one).

oleaf · Apr 28, 2009

Kevin Purcell said:
I was complaining about "Sports Optics" before and I just noticed ...

Leica Sports Optic
ZEISS Sports Optics
Swarovski sports optics

Vortex sports optics
Bushnell sports optics

Nikon Sport Optics
PENTAX Sport Optics
Kowa Sporting Optics (or Sport Optics)

Meopta Sport optics (on the meopta.com)

Steiner Binoculars (they don't do Sport(s) Optics!).

Clealy a Mitteleuropa (and Wisconsin) thing with the plural "sports optics"

So there is some more variation than I thought (but Meopta aren't internally consistent) so I may have been a bit harsh but I do tend to type those things without the plural sports.

Since Swarovski calls it Sports Optics I believe it is now law and can't be changed. Even if you think it should be changed... too late.

Kevin Purcell · Apr 28, 2009

oleaf said:
Since Swarovski calls it Sports Optics I believe it is now law and can't be changed. Even if you think it should be changed... too late.

That would be the Reinheitsgebot für Binokulare Werbung finally being enforced ...

FrankD · Apr 29, 2009

I just assumed it referenced the fact that several of the current, primary binocular uses were "sports" in one sense of the term (birding, hunting, etc...).

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