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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binastro" data-source="post: 3344122" data-attributes="member: 111403">Thanks Vespobuteo.I wonder how 'Made in Portugal' it is.100%, 50% or?I ask, as information on websites is often inaccurate, e.g. re. Canon IS binoculars, and I take possible Japanese input on the Trinovid seriously. Not that it matters.The FOV is smaller in 10x42 than the HD Conquest. Although the measured field of the latter is larger than stated at 6.65 deg. But the HD Conquest is a bit large physically.For me the FOVs are a bit small in the new Trinovids, although the size seems good.Leica had the fisheye, zoom, reflex and some macro lenses made by Minolta. Also some Leicaflex bodies.And the CL cameras are similar, Leica and Minolta.The 1950s Leica Xenon f/1.5 lens, which sniffs of Schneider, but was probably made by Leitz was an unlicenced copy of the TTH f/1.5 x ray lens from 1942, which was used in mass x ray for TB. It was supposedly the best lens of its type and designed by Lee. Leitz had to pay TTH royalties when challenged. A sample of the TTH lens now rests in their museum. It may be coated.So the source of branded items is hard to know for certain.I hope the new Trinovids do well, wherever they are born.</blockquote>