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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kabsetz" data-source="post: 1378084" data-attributes="member: 10167">Tom,My digital kitchen scale has not been properly calibrated by the Bureau of standards and you therefore will immediately disregard its validity, but for what it's worth I have used it to measure the "naked weight" of the Leica Ultravid 8x32, both HD and pre-HD versions. "Naked" here refers to weight without strap or lens guards. The pre-HD measured 540g and the HD 532g. To me, not requiring German standards of precision, these readings are comfortably close to what Leica specifies. In any case, plenty light enough for a metal-bodied rubber-armored binocular.Humor aside, I also don't trust the accuracy of old-fashioned mechanical kitchen scales, but the modern electronic ones are much better. In any case, for sufficient everyman's calibration one can buy a couple of cans of canned soup, sardines etc. and weigh them with the grocery store's produce scales as apples or oranges, then check their own kitchen scale with these same "standardized" weights. At least here in Finland, the store scales are required to be calibrated.KimmoKimmo</blockquote>