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Message: <blockquote data-quote="etudiant" data-source="post: 3281195" data-attributes="member: 48052">This glass seems a fun project to work on.The optical performance quoted, with near focus around 1 meter, is excellent.I'd love to know whether the FoV is similarly impressive, as 157M/1000M is close to 9 degrees, better than the 8.5 degrees achieved by the Zeiss 7x42.The engraving is surely fake, the German language does not have a plural 'Objektivs', it should be 'Objective' as already noted by jring. Add to that the use of the phrase M-C, which in German should really be Mehrverguetet.If the FoV is near as impressive as the close focus, I'd call it an experimental unit, which may have been why it got marked up so oddly. Still, the posted specs are extraordinary even today, so the most likely explanation is that they are simply not true.If possible, please just put these side by side with an other set of 7 or 8x50s and see if your Greenkats blow them away. No porro 7x50 I know of has a 157M/1000M FoV.Please post your results, because you may have discovered something more than a good fake.</blockquote>