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Could someone out there who owns both an EL FP 32mm and 42 mm please post a overhead side by side photo of their eyecups for comparison.

Are the 32's smaller and by how much?

Dereck
 
Could someone out there who owns both an EL FP 32mm and 42 mm please post a overhead side by side photo of their eyecups for comparison.

Are the 32's smaller and by how much?

Dereck

Hey Dereck...
It's late but I took a few not so great pictures but maybe they will help! The 42mm eye cups are slightly larger diameter. I also measured each eye cup:

EL 32mm- 1.576 inch
EL 42mm- 1.654 inch

HTH!
 

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Great photo - I had the EL 10x50 (which has the same eye cups as the 42) and now own the EL 8x32. While the 10x50's eye cups were bigger, the INNER diameter was bigger on the 8x32, which caught me by great surprise.

I have a spare EL 42/50 eyecup laying around (odd, I know), but I measured it.

EL 8x32: 1" 3/16
EL 42/50: 1" 1/16

I am holding the 42/50 eyecup in the picture. You can see the lip is thinner on the 8x32.

Cheers
 

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Great photo - I had the EL 10x50 (which has the same eye cups as the 42) and now own the EL 8x32. While the 10x50's eye cups were bigger, the INNER diameter was bigger on the 8x32, which caught me by great surprise.

I have a spare EL 42/50 eyecup laying around (odd, I know), but I measured it.

EL 8x32: 1" 3/16
EL 42/50: 1" 1/16

I am holding the 42/50 eyecup in the picture. You can see the lip is thinner on the 8x32.

Cheers

Off at a bit of a tangent, but I love you folks across the water, because:

you still use traditional measurements. I haven't seen anyone mention sixteenths over here in years; nor does anyone use degrees F except for warm temperatures.

you preserve the real spellings. None of our newspapers still write 'authorize' etc that way now; they all use the French spelling.

we've just about thrown all our traditions away; thank you for keeping them alive.

End of digression. Thanks for listening!

Tom
 
While I agree with Tom's observation about the quaint charm of the use of fractions,
putting Chucks decimal based imperial measurements through a conversion programme, we get:

The EL x32's 1.576" = 40.0(304) mm

The EL x42's 1.654" = 42.0(116) mm

So assuming the EL designs are blueprinted in metric dimensions - the above indicates pretty accurate measurement by Chuck!

John
 
Off at a bit of a tangent, but I love you folks across the water, because:

you still use traditional measurements. I haven't seen anyone mention sixteenths over here in years; nor does anyone use degrees F except for warm temperatures.

you preserve the real spellings. None of our newspapers still write 'authorize' etc that way now; they all use the French spelling.

we've just about thrown all our traditions away; thank you for keeping them alive.

End of digression. Thanks for listening!

Tom

And let's face it, the "Stonehenge" gag in the film Spinal Tap would never have worked if they'd used metric measurements... 3:)

Take heart - not all traditions have been thrown away - consider the noble and ancient English custom of Rhubarb Thrashing... https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=512769842429384
 
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"Difficulty typing rhubarb." That's the best edit in years. I love it. :t:

I posted a photo of the 8.5 and 32 SV euyecups many years ago. Not much diference as it turns out.

Mark
 
On a site like this I like to use the metric system, millimeters is a useful method in small increments.

My tape measures often have both sizes, inch and MM, I usually use inch...

Jerry
 
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