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Rusty
Optics Apprentice Joined: April/12/2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 147 |
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Posted: July/19/2005 at 14:33 |
How does the German Optical Co. Opticron? How do their binos compare to the other top end products? Are they similar quality wise to Docter, Minox and Kahles?
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ranburr
Optics Master Joined: May/16/2004 Status: Offline Points: 1082 |
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It is my understanding that Opticron is a UK company that brand labels a lot of Aisian optics. Primarily chinese stuff. I have only seen the low-end stuff and it was crap. I know that they do have some higher end stuff that birders apperently like. I would take any one of the three above mentioned brands before I would get the Opticron.
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gremlin
Optics Apprentice Joined: February/16/2004 Location: left of center Status: Offline Points: 115 |
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As far as I knew, Opticron has always been a re-marketer of Japanese, Taiwanese, and Chinese binoculars. I didn't know that they had a European made line available to them.
As a looooong time birder, I can say that I've never read a review of an Opticron binocular that stated they were better than whatever binocular they were being compared to. And I read a lot of reviews.
Where I have seen them come up and get okay reviews is on the astronomy pages like "Cloudy Nights" and the like. Opticron usually comes across as a poor-man's Celestron in the bigger sizes that the star gazers seem to like.
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