Barbican1987
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A friend of mine has a pair of Countryman 8x40 roof prism binoculars with no manufacturers name on them. !!
They quoted bga and some other letters which I can't remember now but it only quoted 6 degrees fov which seemed low for this size of binocular.
I searched the internet and they look very much like the Countryman model made by Opticron.
What I suspect is that these are a copy of he Opticron model unless the label has been washed off. They were lost and dropped them in seawater but we're recovered several days later!! Unfortunately the left eye relief is now seized.
She belongs to a natural history group and uses them on outings with them. She brought them along today for me so look at as she commented on a poor of field of view although she has owned them some years.
I wonder if any officionado out there can shed any light on identifying model. I don't have a photo unfortunately.
They quoted bga and some other letters which I can't remember now but it only quoted 6 degrees fov which seemed low for this size of binocular.
I searched the internet and they look very much like the Countryman model made by Opticron.
What I suspect is that these are a copy of he Opticron model unless the label has been washed off. They were lost and dropped them in seawater but we're recovered several days later!! Unfortunately the left eye relief is now seized.
She belongs to a natural history group and uses them on outings with them. She brought them along today for me so look at as she commented on a poor of field of view although she has owned them some years.
I wonder if any officionado out there can shed any light on identifying model. I don't have a photo unfortunately.
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