dries1
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I have been looking for a while for a mint 8X30 from Zeiss Oberkochen or Wetzlar. I found the early models from the 50s and 60s had insufficient eye relief around 10mm I think, but a 8+ degree FOV. They also made a 8X30B with rubber eye cups but with a FOV of 6.4 degrees.
Well by chance I found these at a decent price, but I was blown away of how they were kept all these years. They were purchased from an individual whose father was serving in the US military as a doctor in Germany and who purchased them there.
They are the later 8X30 B and have a 7.4 degree FOV with 18-19 MM eye relief and were the last porros Zeiss made in Wetzlar in 1978. Production spanned about 10 years.
I hope to have some time to show more pics. They are smaller in size than the Nikon 8X30 E produced in the 1990s, but very similar in stature, a bit behind the later coatings, but great German glass, the resolution was surprising to me.
The case is a bold forest Green.
Andy W.
Well by chance I found these at a decent price, but I was blown away of how they were kept all these years. They were purchased from an individual whose father was serving in the US military as a doctor in Germany and who purchased them there.
They are the later 8X30 B and have a 7.4 degree FOV with 18-19 MM eye relief and were the last porros Zeiss made in Wetzlar in 1978. Production spanned about 10 years.
I hope to have some time to show more pics. They are smaller in size than the Nikon 8X30 E produced in the 1990s, but very similar in stature, a bit behind the later coatings, but great German glass, the resolution was surprising to me.
The case is a bold forest Green.
Andy W.
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