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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Renze de Vries" data-source="post: 3264767" data-attributes="member: 10024">Etienne,The studs-clips attachment for the strap was applied until +/- 1970.Re. logos. Jan/Gary is largely correct in post #5, with this addition that you may find red dot logos with Wetzlar on them as well.More important however are your questions/problems with respect to eye relief and eye cups. The rubber eye cup on your Leitz Trinovid model is the 10 mm type. It fits the short eye relief on your wide angle 8x32 but indeed, the eye lens gets smeared easily. On subsequent 8x32 models a 14 mm eye cup was used, solving the eye lashes-problem but for a price: FoV went down from 150 to 130 at 1000 m. I've tried all sorts of solutions to the eye cup-eye relief problem on the Trinovids and none were completely succesful. The best solution I found was to use an 18 mm eye cup (as applied on the 7x42) and use it rolled back. In this way you can adjust distance/height exactly to your liking while the larger diameter cup you've created fits your eye sockets quite nicely. Leitz' replacement eye cups are perfect because they're made of somewhat softer rubber than the original cups.Renze</blockquote>