Audubon Gold, internal reflections
This is another Audubon I picked up to restore, I have a mint one, which I thought pretty good, which does suffer from reflections a little, which I put down to a quirk of the model. This one, had alignment issues, a few smudges inside and seemed to have very bad reflections, giving a very glared image. I stripped it down, and before re-assembly, matt blacked all the inside body and prism cradle edges and any likely reflective surface I could find, including the inside fixings for the strap attachments and inside the prism cover plates. Now re assembled and collimated, I am stunned by the difference, it is really terrific now, sharp, great resolution, no reflections or glare at all, optically it beats my mint one and has better color resolution than my HR5 FMC model. It seems the internal reflection issue is an easy fix, so will try the same on my mint one.