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Inter bellum French and Zeiss WW2. Both manufactured for Bulgaria

Very nice looking sets Bard.
What are they like to use ?

Tychsen wrote:Very nice looking sets Bard.
What are they like to use ?

Well.............................. you put your eyes to the small bits...... and you can see things through the big bits on the other side....... It's dead clever.

I have some German ones that when you look through the little bits the thing you are looking at gets closer.
Cos they are German it moves dead quick. No matter how fast I put them down the thing I was looking at has gone back to being far away.
Bloody good them Germans.

HG
Well.............................. you put your eyes to the small bits...... and you can see things through the big bits on the other side....... It's dead clever.

HG, I didn't ask how to use them, I was thinking more of optical quality, FOV, depth of field, quality of image , how they preform in varying light conditions, sharpness at the centre and edge of the field of vision , relative weight in hand , eye relief and perhaps how the two sets from different makers compare.
You look at a sets of Kershaw, Ross , leitz and a Zeiss and whilst the :

HG
Well.............................. you put your eyes to the small bits...... and you can see things through the big bits on the other side....... It's dead clever.

Works for all of them , how they preform is unique to each make.

Nope..... it doesn't - I've got a pair - and if you look through the big bits - the little bits make things look right far away.... Now THAT'S clever!

But can it make "Pea and ham from a Chicken".....now that is clever
Bard , what is the SOM set with , it too looks like a nice capture .

The SOM has a very nice image. Together with Huet an Krauss I guess they are safe aquiaitions.....

Nope..... it doesn't - I've got a pair - and if you look through the big bits - the little bits make things look right far away.... Now THAT'S clever!
Blood hell at the age of 66 i didnt know that, no wonder every pair i have used everything seemed to be very distant
graham

Mine is excellent. Suggest you get a repairman to look it over. Sounds like a doorstopper…..

Enigma wrote:Inter bellum French and Zeiss WW2. Both manufactured for Bulgaria

Presumably BC might stand for something as mundane as Bulgarian Contract? The crest on the french made ones looks slightly like the Romanian crest on their helmets - the sort of back to back stylised letter C, just an observation.

They are both made for Romania.