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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binastro" data-source="post: 3565310" data-attributes="member: 111403">Hi Stephen,Thanks for the last two posts.With a bit of luck all Chinese fake binoculars might now disappear.They seem to be listening to me; I doubt it. But a nice thought. Although an individual maker with some scruples might.In the 1960s and 1970s the Chinese products I dealt with, and for which we had sole European rights, and the Chinese state exporters dealers were very honest indeed.But in the last thirty years there is only Chinese growth at any cost. Environment, safety, advertising, quality control, complete ignoring of patents, designs, trademarks and so on. The claim that they do not understand copyright etc. is not true. They know exactly what they are doing.The photo in your link from Poland shows the Amplivid and the 6x24 Chinese.That is why I prefer the Amplivid to the Komz 6x24, even though transmission is about 50%.The site says 6x34, a typo, but the transmission is good and 25mm not 24mm. I suspect the Russian one is 24mm.The field is way down, but field sizes are often fiction.There is a new Chinese airliner to compete with the Airbus A320s and Boeing 737 due in service 2020 probably. I wouldn't go on it even if the flights were free. (Mind you, I wouldn't go with Ryanair either).</blockquote>