Japanese Made Binoculars - Inventory Reply Form

   The purpose of this Inventory is to collect basic and fairly objective 
information on binoculars made at any time in Japan and that are in the hands of 
the contributors. The information collected will be made available to everyone thru 
a file on the Web page.  All contributions will remain anonymous.

   Documentation on the numerous makes, models, and actual manufacturers of 
Japanese binoculars in the early years is to a large extent non-existent, or at 
best, unavailable.  By contributing data to this inventory of Japanese binoculars, 
it is hoped that after compiling enough entries we can draw some inferences as to 
various brands and actual makers.

   The current version of the survey is kept in an Excel file, posted to:
      http://home.europa.com/~telscope/JpnSurvy.xls

   We encourage everyone to send in information for all of the Japanese binoculars 
they have.

   Email completed form to:    listkeeper@post.com

   Please send the form in its current format as a Text (.txt) file, without 
converting to a Word document.  The 'survey form' below can be copied to the body 
of an email, and then filled out.

   Enter the information immediately after the colon (:) Please use CAPITAL 
letters.

   See the notes below the form for assistance with the format of your input.

(SURVEY FORM):
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BRAND NAME:
MAKER NAME:
MODEL:
POWER:
SIZE:
BODY TYPE:
FOCUS TYPE:
COATING:
PRISM:
SERIAL No.:
FIELD of VIEW:
JB No.:
JE No.:
MADE IN OCCUPIED JAPAN (Y/N)
LOGO DESCRIPTION:
SOURCE:
COMMENTS:

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FIELD DEFINITIONS:

BRAND:  This may be different than the maker's name.  Usually is a store name, such 
as Sears or JP Penny.

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MAKER: NAME Sometimes the name of the actual manufacture will appear along with a 
brand name.  This usually happened before the use of "J" numbers.  For instance, 
some early Bushnell binoculars had the Bushnell brand on them as well as "FPO" 
(Fuji Photo Optical) on them somewhere.  Fuji is the actual maker, Bushnell the 
marketing brand.  Bushnell also used other makers besides FPO.

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MODEL No./NAME:  May or may not be present

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SIZE (of Objective lenses in mm):  50, 35, etc.  Example - for a binocular labeled 
7x35, the size of the objective lens would be 35.

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POWER: 7, 10, etc. Example - for a binocular labeled 7x35, the power would be 7.

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BODY TYPE: There are two basic types.

Zeiss style - which consists of a main body with two extended screwed-on barrels 
protruding several inches out from the flat front part of the main body.  These  
contain the objective (large) lenses.  This is the type most often seen in Japanese 
glasses. There is a variant model where the objective lenses are screwed directly 
onto the flat front of the main body and there are no extended screwed-on barrels.  
This configuration is most often found on smaller sized models such as some 6x30's 
and 8x30's. 

For the Zeiss type with the extended barrels, enter "Z"

For the Zeiss type, with the objective lenses screwed directly onto the flat front 
of the main body (no extended barrel), enter "Z-NB"

A B&L body is distinguished from a Zeiss body in that, while the barrels with the 
objective lenses protrude, each side of the binocular is one solid piece, with no 
screw on barrels.

For Bausch & Lomb, enter "B&L".

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SERIAL No.: Usually labeled as such.  However, some older ones had an "Art. No., 
which was, in some cases, the (chain) store's ID.  Please put "Art. No." in the 
LOGO section

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FIELD of VIEW: Please give as "378ft" (1000 yds" is the standard reference), or in 
degrees, such as "7.1" (degree sign is not on keyboard).

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COATING: If there is no coating, or it is unknown use "N".  Use "C" for Coated, 
"FC" = Fully Coated, and "FMC" = Fully Multicoated.

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PRISM: Use "P" for porro prisms, "R" for roof prisms.

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FOCUS TYPE  "CF" = Center Focus,  "IF" = Individual Focus.

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JB: Number usually on the front hinge bar or front prism cover.

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JE: Number usually on the opposite hinge bar or prism cover than the JE No.

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SOURCE:  A = You have access to the actual binoculars.
         C = Data is from a catalogue
           or some other source.

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COMMENTS:  Whatever you think would be helpful to the history of the item.  
Includes general comments on quality, condition, materials and construction, etc.  
Please limit comments on optical quality to general observations that would be 
obvious to most users.

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