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Binocular snobbery

10,000 Birds

In the late 80s I was invited by Zeiss to go to Wetzlar in Germany to see the company’s binoculars being manufactured, an invitation that was too good to refuse. We had met before, so when he encountered me in Austria he asked me what I was doing there. These binoculars were made at Leica’s factory in Portugal.

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