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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brocknroller" data-source="post: 1618480" data-attributes="member: 665">Bob, But what if the buyer is used to reading Japanese manga, which is read right to left? Then the letters in front of the configuration will be the 2nd set of letters. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />It's more confusing than it should be, IMO. Look at Leica. In the designation "Leica BR" the "R" doesn't stand for "Roof" but "Rubber". The "BL" has Leatherette coverings. Then look at Zeiss with its B/GA designation. The "B" is for "Brille" ("eyeglass," meaning good for eyeglass wearers), the "GA" is for "Gummiarmoring" (instead of an "R" for Rubber armoring). I'm not suggesting that every optics manufacturing company in the world adopt German lettering (though the Japanese do use "D" = Dach for roofs), but at least the Germans should decide to either stick with German or use English rather than "mix and match" in different ways.I think things would be less confusing if all optics manufacturers used the Klingon alphabet (tlhIngan pIqaD) in their designations and adopted universal standards with these letters.<a href="http://www.kli.org/pics/piqdemo.gif" target="_blank">http://www.kli.org/pics/piqdemo.gif</a>Although these fonts will not not reproduce on BF, mid-priced roofs would carry the designation in Klingon alphabet standing for TVR (tunnel vision roofs). Alpha roofs would carry the designation of OPR (over priced roofs). Premium porros would be labeled BB4UBP (best bang for your buck porros). ZR, Hawke, and Promaster ED bins would carry the letters BB4UBR (best bang for your buck roofs). Once the Klingon Empire forms an alliance with the Borg (and they agree not to assimilate Klingons), Klingons will take over the galaxy, and I will be named Galactic Emperor. Then no longer will there be concerns about distinguishing ER, rubber armoring, close focus, etc. in designations, because all birding bins will be required to follow uniform KGO ("Klingon Galactic Order") standards.These include: 1. A minimum usable ER of 17mm2. A minimum of 7.5* FOV for 8x bins, 6* FOV for 10x3  Non-toxic rubber armoring (leatherette is for sissies)4. WP/FP.5. Minimum close focus of 10'.6. Minimum sweet spot of 70% of the field of view, regardless of TFOV. 8. Maximum "focus speed" from close focus to infinity of 1 turn, minimum of 1 1/2 turns. 10. High levels of chromatic aberration will be outlawed. Exotic glasses will be standard on all bins.11. Gov't subsidies will be made available for poorer families to purchase bins (eventually poverty will be eradicated by outlawing "bubble and bust" economies, by providing free college education and technical training, having universal health care, putting caps on CEO salaries, bankers, brokers, hedge fund managers, sports players, actors, and all other overpaid earthlings who drive up the cost of products and services and drive down the benefits to those paid less, adopting a fair and simple tax system, and making trade that is not "free" without also being "fair". Under KGOs, journalism will be among the highest paid professions on earth). 12. All optics companies will be required to produce premium porros as part of their line. 13. All roofs will have wide shallow thumb indents to accommodate both smaller human hands and larger Klingon hands. 14. Nose relief on all bins will allow high bridged nosed and deep-set eyed humans and all Klingons to see the entire FOV. I am open to listening to suggestions for other KGO standards as long as they do not negate the above 14 standards. B'rock, GEIW (Galactic Emperor-in-Waiting). ---When I came to earth from Quo'nos as as child, one of the first movies I watched was "Dr. Doolittle," but I assumed that it was merely a fantasy. But now I find from reading BF that pigs can speak Latin, and dogs know how to translate German!I also heard a crow "meow" like a cat in my backyard when my neighbor's cat was prowling through the woods. What's next? Talking horses? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PZPpWTRTU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PZPpWTRTU</a></blockquote>

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