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New - Leica Trinovid ? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter NDhunter
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I guess that would explain why some dealers have them for under $1k.....
FrankD
Well-known member
Cape May Autumn Birding Festival. The Leica rep, Jeff Bouton, will be there so I will ask him.
Vespobuteo
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seems like bad timing since there still are a lot prev. model HD bins out there,
almost as cheap as the Trinovids,
perhaps a 8x32 Trinovid to compete with Conquests?
almost as cheap as the Trinovids,
perhaps a 8x32 Trinovid to compete with Conquests?
A2GG
Beth
Seems right and I bet they will use the current 42mm Trinovid body.
It would be nice if they make a new lighter body ...that
would pique my interest. The current Trinovid is heavy.
~ Beth (I changed my user name from Annabeth2)
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Prices vary over here by as much as £100 from dealer to dealer but haven't found any advertising 'special discount or sale' prices on Trinovids in UK.
Lee
Kammerdiner
Well-known member
I don't know what's up with the Trinovid, but it looks like something. Cameraland has those sub-$1k prices. Eagle Optics only has 8x42 Trinovid demos "while supplies last." The 10x42 Trinovid is already removed from the website.
Stay tuned.
Stay tuned.
Ontario
Well-known member
Somethings up ...
I've noticed an unusual large number of certified pre owned Trinovids for sale on the internet over the last year (no Ultravids) ? Maybe there was a bad production run at the Portugal facility or there is something more serious like design flaw (premature material failure) given all certified pre owned units for sale.
Nikon's EDG got hammered by the diopter problem, warranty returns, refurb. sales really decimated the resale value not too mention future unit sales.
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David in NC
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Oooohhh HEECCCCKKKK NOOOOOO! :C
You ain't getting away with just "
" ! ! ! :CCough it the heck UP! :t:
I have a Leica 8x42 Ultravid Black line (leather covered) made in Portugal. I purchased it from Camera Land as a Demo a couple of years ago and saved a few hundred dollars. It was an open box binocular which was taken to an optics show for display purposes. It had never been touched and as far as I could tell it was never taken out of the box.
It came with a 10 year warranty as a "Certified Pre-owned binocular." I was told that Leica requires this statement on all binoculars which have been opened for use as display binoculars.
The same thing would apply to all of the new Trinovids which were used for those purposes anywhere they were offered for sale. If there are any structural problems with the Trinovids requiring refurbishing work I have not heard of them.
The problems with the Nikon EDG I were structural and obvious for the most part and they involved the armor bubbling and coming loose and the corrugated rubber ring surrounding the focus wheel stretching and causing it to stick. There also were some problems with the diopter staying accurate.
I had my 10x32 EDG I replaced by Nikon with a new EDG II because of the 1st two issues. The diopter on mine worked perfectly.
Bob
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David Swain
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Oh, Frank; don't be so coy!
tenex
reality-based
I too would be very interested in anything you learned about this.
