Leica Trinovid 10×42

Specifications:

Objective diameter:  42 mm
Magnification:  10 x
Exit pupil: 4.2 mm
Eye relief (acc. to spec): 16 mm
Usable eye relief (measured from rim of eyecup): 13 mm
IPD: 56  –  74 mm
RFOV:  6.2  degrees = 108 m
AFOV (measured, rounded): 59.5 degrees
Minimum focus distance (measured): 2.85 m
Focus type: CF (direction of rotation from close to infinity: > clockwise)
Degrees of rotation of focus wheel from 3m to infinity (measured): 380 degrees
Range of diopter adjustment (estimate): +/- 3.5 dpt*
Excess travel of focus wheel beyond infinity position (estimate): 3.5 dpt*
Prism system:  Schmidt-Pechan
Waterproof: yes
Weight (measured, with eyepiece cover and strap): 881 g
Made in: Portugal

*range of diopter adjustment and excess travel of focus wheel beyond infinity are mutually exclusive

Remarks:

When Leica updated this Trinovid 10×42 by bringing out the Trinovid 10×42 “HD” version, they did the opposite of what they had done with the upgrade of the 8×42 version: they widened the field of view (in the 8×42, they made it smaller). But this older version still has a decent FOV, and it is a very nice upper class binocular, with impeccable mechanics and a very good optical performance, that stands well in the line of the renowned “Trinovid” tradition which goes back well into the 1960s.

see also remarks under separate posts “Leica Trinovid 8×42”, https://binocular.ch/leica-trinovid-8×42/ , and “Leica Trinovid 8×42 HD”, https://binocular.ch/leica-trinovid-8×42-hd/

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