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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maico" data-source="post: 3524018" data-attributes="member: 139687">I wonder what % of their output is binoculars ? They have medical, scientific and military divisions.QC issues. How can expensive binos (from most makes it seems) get through alleged stringent testing in the state reported bellow ? They are after all quite simple optical devices compared to something like this with numerous moving parts: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Canon_EF_200-400mm_cut.jpg" target="_blank">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Canon_EF_200-400mm_cut.jpg</a>Quote from Allbinos 2016 review:"That almost idyllic image is spoilt by the quality control – it seems the Czechs have to work on it much harder. When we glanced inside the binoculars and examined the prisms carefully we noticed strange damp patches on their edges. On the right prism there was a shiny object – a bigger speck of dust or even a glass or coating defect. If the Meopta is supposed to qualify as a top-of-the-range, premium instrument such a specimen shouldn’t have been sent to the shops at all."<a href="http://www.allbinos.com/310-binoculars_review-Meopta_Meostar_B1_10x42_HD.html" target="_blank">http://www.allbinos.com/310-binoculars_review-Meopta_Meostar_B1_10x42_HD.html</a></blockquote>