Greetings from Venezuela.
Sorry if this isn't the place, I found this forum looking for information about my case in google.
I was looking for some old stuff and found a set of Zenith 8x30 binoculars my father bought about 30 years ago (he died 20 years ago), but the diopter is broken
http://imgur.com/1SDqzTU
The image looks great from either left or right eye, and both can focus perfectly, but it's obviously impossible to look with both eyes at the same time since one will always be out of focus.
I'm a complete binoculars newbie other than knowing how to look trough them (just today I learnt that that thing was called diopter), but I'd like to know if there was any way to fix them myself, mostly out of nostalgia since I remember when I went with my father to buy them when I was 10.
Another reason why I want to see if I could fix them myself is that I live in Venezuela, there's really no place I know in this city where I could send them to be fixed, and sending them anywhere else would probably cost more in shipping than getting new ones, and knowing the venezuelan postal system, with a big chance of them getting lost before they even left the country.
Sorry if this isn't the place, I found this forum looking for information about my case in google.
I was looking for some old stuff and found a set of Zenith 8x30 binoculars my father bought about 30 years ago (he died 20 years ago), but the diopter is broken
http://imgur.com/1SDqzTU
The image looks great from either left or right eye, and both can focus perfectly, but it's obviously impossible to look with both eyes at the same time since one will always be out of focus.
I'm a complete binoculars newbie other than knowing how to look trough them (just today I learnt that that thing was called diopter), but I'd like to know if there was any way to fix them myself, mostly out of nostalgia since I remember when I went with my father to buy them when I was 10.
Another reason why I want to see if I could fix them myself is that I live in Venezuela, there's really no place I know in this city where I could send them to be fixed, and sending them anywhere else would probably cost more in shipping than getting new ones, and knowing the venezuelan postal system, with a big chance of them getting lost before they even left the country.