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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Omid" data-source="post: 3636633" data-attributes="member: 16724">Hi Holger!It is very nice hearing from you! I agree with you in that a likely scenario where I can get Zeiss or Swarovski's attention is to have these inventions made by another company or, even better, create a startup company.  After a few years, they will come and want to buy the little new company <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> I have been investigating the possibility of starting an optics company that can manufacture (or outsource the manufacturing of) some of my ideas. I'll keep you posted. Another thought that I have been entertaining for quite sometime is this: It is very unlikely that large and prestigious optics manufacturers will produce any radical and excitingly new product in the next 10 years (the best they might do is stay in business and not become bankrupt, currently Schmidt and Bender and Leica are near bankruptcy, both for the second time in the past few years. Swarovski is the only one doing OK). But, it is quite possible that knowledgeable enthusiasts such as you could come up with innovative ideas. I mentioned this in a <a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=3631946&postcount=52" target="_blank">separate post a few days ago</a> and specifically referred to you as someone who is capable of innovating in the field of binoculars. It would be nice if some of us (interested and knowledgeable people here at Birdforum) could form some sort of "optics think tank" and invent some new binocular concepts. Otherwise, in a few years, we have to rename birdforum's binoculars section "binocular history forum".Sincerely,-Omid</blockquote>

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