Help Identify "New" Binoculars (1 Viewer)

Kevin Purcell said:

They remind me of another classic porro in armor design but I'm not sure which one ... Swaro Habicht, perhaps?

Obviously not saying they are just that they copied a look.

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Thinking harder. Not Swaro's but Zeiss or copies of Zeiss or other militarty porros (like the IOR).

e.g. see

http://holgermerlitz.de/six7x40.html

and other pages.

http://holgermerlitz.de/

I did some looking last night and couldn't find anything definative but I found a couple of leads.

One was an ad for Sport Master binoculars that look very similar.
Sport Master

Another lead was for Soligor binoculars that had no markings except for ""Soligor, High Transmission" on one side and "7x50, Field 71*, Fully Coated" on the other." But this man said that his binoculars didn't have a serial number or anything else so they too aren't a perfect match.

It's confusing. I guess I should just be happy with the fact that I have a very good viewing binocular that didn't cost much money.

I still would like to know what they are though.

I think Chadhanh may be onto swithing with Soligor. It's not a current model.

But see the photos in this blog entry ...

http://aperturefever.wordpress.com/...ocular-tripod-adapter-collimation-mini-guide/

Spec (7 degree FOV for 7x50) and the ribbed armor and the metric field markings.

Those don't look quite like mine but similar. The armor is different. They could be different years though.

Thanks for posting the link.

Chad