Binoculars reviews - Listing of binocular producers

Listing of binocular producers

There are numerous corporations that producer binoculars, each previous and current. They embody:

• Barr and Stroud (UK) ? bought binoculars commercially and first provider to the Royal Navy in WWII. The brand new vary of Barr & Stroud binoculars are at present made in China (Nov. 2011) and distributed by Optical Imaginative and prescient Ltd.
• Bausch & Lomb (US) ? has not made binoculars since 1976, once they licensed their title to Bushnell, Inc., who made binoculars below the Bausch & Lomb title till the license expired, and was not renewed, in 2005.
• BELOMO (Belarus) ? each porro prism and roof prism fashions manufactured.
• Bresser (Germany)
• Bushnell Corporation (US)
• Bosma (Guangzhou Bosma Corp) (China) ? a producer of sports activities optics resembling binoculars, rifle scopes, dot sights, recognizing scopes, and so on.
• Canon Inc (Japan) ? I.S. collection: porro variants
• Celestron
• Docter Optics (Germany) ? Nobilem collection: porro prisms
• Fujinon (Japan) ? FMTSX, FMTSX-2, MTSX collection: porro
• J.O.C. Guangzhou Jinghua Optics and Digital Co., Ltd (China) ? Giant authentic gear producer and half proprietor of Bresser (DE and US), Meade and Discover Scientific.
• I.O.R. (Romania)
• Kamakura Koki Co., Ltd. ? Giant original equipment manufacturer with factories in Japan and in China for corporations resembling Bushnell, Alpen, Zen Ray, Eagle Optics, Leupold & Stevens, Vixen.
• Krasnogorsky Zavod (Russia) ? each porro prism and roof prism fashions, fashions with optical stabilizers. The manufacturing unit is a part of the Shvabe Holding Group
• KOMZ (Russia) ? Binoculars bought below the model title "Baigysh" (porro prism)
• Leica Camera (Germany) ? Ultravid, Duovid, Geovid, Trinovid: all are roof prism
• Leupold & Stevens, Inc (US)
• Meade Instruments (US) ? Glacier (roof prism), TravelView (porro), CaptureView (folding roof prism) and Astro Collection (roof prism). Additionally sells below the title Coronado.
• Meopta (Czech Republic) ? Meostar B1 (roof prism)
• Minox
• Miyauchi (Japan)
• Nikon (Japan) ? EDG, Excessive Grade, Monarch three, 5, 7, RAII, and Spotter collection: roof prism; Prostar, Superior E, E, and Motion EX collection: porro; Prostaff collection, Aculon collection
• Olympus Corporation (Japan)
• Pentax (Japan) ? DCFED/SP/XP collection: roof prism; UCF collection: inverted porro; PCFV/WP/XCF collection: porro
• SANTEPLUS (Japan) ? KabukiGlasses collection
• Steiner-Optik (German) (Germany)
• Sunagor (Japan)
• Swarovski Optik
• Takahashi Seisakusho (Japan)
• Vixen (telescopes) (Japan) ? Apex/Apex Professional: roof prism; Ultima: porro
• Vivitar (US)
• Vortex Optics (US)
• Yukon Optics (Worldwide)
• Yunnan Optoelectronics Co. Ltd. (Kunming, China) ? manufactures binoculars for Oberwerk (Ohio, U.S.) of their three way partnership YunAo Optics Co. Ltd.
• Zeiss (Germany) ? FL, Victory, Conquest: roof prism; 7×50 BGAT/T: porro, 15×60 BGA/T: porro, discontinued