CARL ZEISS 10x40 B T* P BINOCULARS - USABLE, BUT NOT OPTICALLY PERFECT

In used condition.

Some scuffs and marks from use. Both the eyepiece lenses, and the objective lenses have lots of age related "cleaning"/coating marks. The objective lenses have some blotchiness etched into the coatings behind the front glass (dark patches visible in image 9). Internally there is some heavy haze? fungus? deep inside. This gives the impression of condensation, but it is not. None of these optical issues seemed to have much effect on image quality, but I have to assume that the internal contamination is having some kind of haze effect maybe? It was not easy to discern issues when testing the binoculars out. Maybe the image created was a little brighter than it should be? But it still seemed very sharp. For example, the final two images show the same subject matter taken only a few minutes apart with a small compact Canon IXUS camera. The first image is taken without the binoculars being involved, but the second is taken through one of the two eyepieces of the binoculars. I think that despite the issues internally, the image quality is easily good enough to make these a usable pair of binoculars.

Collimation checked manually with the eye, and seems OK to me. The binoculars were comfortable to test, and did not leave me with any eye strain.

Sold tested and in working order.

Sale includes all items shown in image 1.....

Binoculars. Nothing else is included in the sale.

Will come very well packaged. FREE delivery by Royal Mail Tracked 24.

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