The fakes including the full name of the lens and the Carl Zeiss logo were quite popular. Saying ‘forged’ I mean the widest sense of that word. When you already talk about Jena products it would be difficult not to mention the 8x30 model, perhaps one of the most forged pair of binoculars of all time. The Carl Zeiss Jena Deltrintem 8x30 binoculars from 1939. After the purchase you could enjoy an instrument just slightly worse than the best binoculars available on the market. Optically it was the best device offered in the Communist Block for a more or less normal amount of money in other words these were binoculars you could dream of with a real hope that one day those dreams would actually come true. Still if you wanted to own better equipment you had to think about a Zeiss from Jena. Their quality might have left a lot to be desired but their price was affordable. For a change Porro instruments produced in Russia, (BPC), Poland (PZO), Czechoslovakia (Meopta), Bulgaria (OMZ) or Romania (IOR) were quite available and popular. Only few could spend an equivalent of their yearly income, or even an income from even several years, on a set of binoculars. If you earned typically 10-20 USD a month, a device costing several hundred dollars was definitely outside your financial reach. If you lived behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War you could only dream about binoculars produced by such companies as Leitz, Zeiss Oberkochen, Nikon or Swarovski. In the Eastern Block, however, you can talk about a phenomenon of those instruments as they were wildly popular. Perhaps, in the eyes of people from Western Europe or the United States of America, they didn’t produce the best pairs of binoculars but still their price/quality ratio was excellent.
Their factory was situated in Jena (an then in Eisfeld not far away from that city).
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In our series of articles concerning legendary binoculars the products of the Eastern Germany Zeiss had a place practically guaranteed. You can change your consents to the use of cookies at any given time. In this document you can find more information concerning browser settings and the way we and our social network, advertising and analytics partners process your data. If you fail to do so you should be aware that we are going to process your data according to our Privacy Policy. You can switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings so if you donât agree with our cookie policy please, change your browser settings or leave our website. Our partners might combine information, obtained on this site, with other data they get from you as you make use of their services while surfing the internet. Information about your browsing habits is shared with our social network, advertising and analytics partners. As in the case of almost all other websites, cookies help us to personalize ads, offering you the most relevant information, allow you to share pages with social networks, make our services work as you expect and, overall, help us to monitor and improve our performance.
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