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1. CARL ZEISS JENA BINOCULARS SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBERS
2. CARL ZEISS JENA BINOCULARS SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER
3. CARL ZEISS JENA BINOCULARS SERIAL NUMBER SERIES

There were no antireflectiion coatings so fewer air-to-glass surfaces meant higher transmission. Such a small number of air-to-glass surfaces was a norm in those times.

As the eyepiece they decided to use a wide-angle (68 degrees) Koenig system consisting of four elements but positioned in just two groups (3+1). The binoculars were a small, classic instrument with an achromatic objective lens (a glued crown and flint glass doublet) and type I Porro prisms with air between them. 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).

CARL ZEISS JENA BINOCULARS SERIAL NUMBER SERIES

Carl Zeiss Jena Deltrintem 8x30 - 1920-1990In our series of articles concerning legendary binoculars the products of the Eastern Germany Zeiss had a place practically guaranteed. Legendary binoculars - Carl Zeiss Jena Deltrintem 8x30 1.

CARL ZEISS JENA BINOCULARS SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER

CARL ZEISS JENA BINOCULARS SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBERS

Post-war Carl Zeiss Oberkochen (W.Carl Zeiss Binoculars Serial Numbers Long time before, almost a century ago, 8x30 binoculars of Porro prismdesign had already reached quite a reasonable performance level. After the war Carl Zeiss separated into two branches and lens production resumed both in Jena (East Germany) as well as in Oberkochen (West Germany).

Part of the serial number sequence of lenses made by Carl Zeiss Jena. Image by Dirk HR Spennemann ( Image rights)