Hi all. I've read some reviews about the Minox BV (and BL) here and on other sites and am curious if anyone has done direct comparisons with the Chinese bins that have been talked about so much. When the BVs are on sale, they compete price-wise with the ZRS, Diamondback, and EO's yet-to-be-released Atlas Skyking. They are described as being phase-coated and having a brand-specific Minobright prism coating. Does anyone know if this is silver or dielectric (or something else)? I'm assuming that the BV line is also made in China.
Has anyone had both one of the 42mm BVs and a ZRS or Diamondback (or Promaster or Hawke)? Thanks.
dusty,
Minox has more recently admitted to at least the presence of some Chinese glass in some of their glass. One that received some comments on another forum was a question on the Minox 13x56 BV asking how much Chinese glass constituted a Chinese binocular.
Minox makes pretty decent binoculars from what I've seen, but the more expensive models in the 43mm class have pretty narrow fov for the price.
Personally, aside from a marketer's invention, I have no idea of what minobright may be.
Now I wonder how far away we might be from the question of "is my less expensive Chinese binocular as good as my more expensive Chinese binocular? The'rey both Chinese."