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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kevin Purcell" data-source="post: 1481901" data-attributes="member: 68323">Ou contraire, swissboy.I think we are actually on topic ... we've been trying to nail down how many "high end bins" have been made to see if the ksbird's (the OP) guess was a good one.And I think we've come up with some good estimated numbers for the SE. Rather lower than I would have thought too so I think the number is perhaps closer to ksbird's original assertion than I initially thought.Even the OP seemed happy in post #9 with this ramblingAnd since that post I think we just nailed down the numbers rather better. Perhaps even lower than ksbird's guess. So I feel I've learnt something from this thread.I see elkcub revealed his number on another thread (sneaky photo!). So there are at least 10,300 (ish) SE 8x32 out there if our speculation is right.If someone ones to make estimates from other high end bin serials I'd be interested to see that too. Zeiss doesn't seem so good as they use true sequential serial numbers so you can't narrow it to models. But then again aren't all Zeiss bins high end ... <ducks>. So you could use the total production numbers (though that includes non-bins).What about Leica or Swaro roofs? Are the low production numbers we have estimated just because the particular bin we focused on, the Nikon SE, was the last "great" high end porro (metal bridge, and all!)?Or someone can try discussing some of the other parts of ksbird's initial assertion . I think I addressed those too in some of my posts.</blockquote>

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