Minox APO HG 10x43 BR asph. due in July 2009 (1 Viewer)

[brocknroller]

Bitte sehr, Mr. Brocknroller, Esq.

.....Which would mean to publically admit that you've been unpleasant stuff in the past.
Which company would like to do that?
The offensive chemicals are plasticizers. All rubber armourings have some of it. The polycyclic aromatics .... well that's nothing but the soot that is put into the rubber to render it black.

Get one with non-black rubber is a first step.
Leather-covered instruments do not ooze any plasticizers!

Tom

Finally found the description I was looking for from Nikon. It doesn't, of course, say, "HEY, we sold some nasty stuff, we're sorry, folks, but we're mending our ways and putting only good stuff in our bins now," but they put a good spin on it:

"The Premier LX features Nikon's Eco-Glass, which is friendly to the environment: no lead, arsenic or polluting vinyl chloride used in its manufacture. The eyecups are made of non-chloroethylene, soft-touch silicon rubber."

Here's the Webpage from which this was taken (scroll about halfway down):
http://www.birdwatching.com/optics/nikon_premierlx32mm.html

I have the Venturer LX, and while it has all the nasty stuff, I like the images better than the LX L's.

Brock

 

[FrankD]

I have the Venturer LX, and while it has all the nasty stuff, I like the images better than the LX L's.

As do I...though that comparison has been hotly debated in the past.