SeldomPerched
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I came across rubber armoured roof prism Victory 8x40 binoculars (or 8x42, not sure which) recently and had a quick look through them across open fields and farmland.
In all honesty they didn't set the world on fire in the half hour that I played around with them; who knows their previous life and knocks.
Just wondering what this model might be called. I had assumed - wrongly - that the Dialyt era was followed by the introduction of the ribbed Victory FL with the glass reinforced warm-in-cold weather covering. These binoculars had a more standard rubberized covering with a dotted pattern in small squares on it. I've not seen them discussed much, unlike the FLs and subsequent HTs and SFs.
Were they generally not that great compared with the other models I've mentioned and then given a quiet burial when the FL was born?
Tom
In all honesty they didn't set the world on fire in the half hour that I played around with them; who knows their previous life and knocks.
Just wondering what this model might be called. I had assumed - wrongly - that the Dialyt era was followed by the introduction of the ribbed Victory FL with the glass reinforced warm-in-cold weather covering. These binoculars had a more standard rubberized covering with a dotted pattern in small squares on it. I've not seen them discussed much, unlike the FLs and subsequent HTs and SFs.
Were they generally not that great compared with the other models I've mentioned and then given a quiet burial when the FL was born?
Tom