Seconded.
Hermann
If Leica really make a run of 7x35s like the old Trinovid, I'd get one more or less straightaway. The old Trinovid was in many ways a great bin. It needs modern multicoatings, dielectric coatings on the prisms and phasecoatings to be competitive. Nothing else.
Hermann
Guten tag Hermann - but I could not help remember you saying, just a few days ago..
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I really like that Leica has revived the original Trinovid. It was no small feat to redesign this binocular
with the original Uppendahl prism system.
Jerry
Jerry
The spec sheet on the website just states 'roof prism'.
I haven't seen anything yet to confirm that Uppendahl's are used. And the almost reasonable price suggests SPs.
I really hope you are right about this.
Lee
Jerry
The spec sheet on the website just states 'roof prism'.
I haven't seen anything yet to confirm that Uppendahl's are used. And the almost reasonable price suggests SPs.
I really hope you are right about this.
Lee
I really like that Leica has revived the original Trinovid. It was no small feat to redesign this binocular
with the original Uppendahl prism system.
On their PDF i can only read Roof Prism with phase coating, nothing about uppendahls.
The Uppendahl is a type of roof prism, so this isn’t contradictory information – just insufficient information.On their PDF i can only read Roof Prism with phase coating, nothing about uppendahls.
I think Leica did not really redesign this binocular, but simply re-issue the orginial Trinovids with its Uppendahl roof prism system. The only up-dates appear to be the coatings and modern eyecups. Apart from this, the optical and mechanical design seems unchanged, as the last Trinovids of this type also had 15 mm eye relieve and were called "splash proof".
Holger has linked a chapter on Uppendahl prisms from his book here: http://www.juelich-bonn.com/jForum/read.php?9,435679 From reading this chapter, the advantage of the prism is not so much optical but that it allows for short compact binoculars. It protrudes to one side however, thus an open bridge or a slim bridge design, as in most modern bins, would not be possible with Uppendahls.