Binoculars are a must-have for Baywatch, coastguard, explores and everyone in between. Most of us had them in our hands, watching, exploring or just spying on someone. There is a very large variety of binoculars to buy: from small ones you use in theaters, to the big, large and heavy ones the military uses.

But there’s even more to the binoculars then just looking through them. You can simply unscrew the objective lenses, wait for the sun to come out and make a fire when needed. Or back in the day when no one had a smartphone and used regular phones with shity cameras. You could simply combine phone and binoculars and have some spy work done. I remember it was a little tricky to hold them together. But nowadays we can buy dedicated scopes for any smartphone. The first use of binoculars was recorded in the 17th century when it was made possible by aligning two Galileo telescopes. But it was in 1854 when Ignazio Porro, an Italian optician, made the first patent on this image erecting system. But everything you could see this way was upside down. Then in 1870. Achille Victor Emile Daubresse design binoculars with roof prisms, that prisms were narrower and more compact than the Porro prisms and the image brightness was and is better.

Made in the USSR, I present to you: Soviet Binoculars.

Don’t worry, you see clearly through them, not like a drunk vodka smelling Russian. These are 7X50 binoculars, 7 stands for the number of magnification the image you're looking at. The number 50 is for the diameter of the objective lenses, bigger lenses will always give you a brighter image. As you can see mine took a lot of abuse, but they still rock. Soviet technologic is robust. It really is. If the Soviets would build a smartphone it would kill the smartphone industry. Just kidding.
So looking at the plastic grip all over the object, it looks and feels nice when holding it. But I prefer a diamond grip because in a worm environment hands can get slippery. The focus adjustment wheel has seen better days. So it gets difficult to adjust the focus, one eye always has a little blurry image. The eyepiece and the objective have no scratches what is important when you use them every day. It's missing the dedicated sight filter, green and yellow that came with my binoculars. You simply unscrew a little plastic ring from the eyepiece and screw the filters on depending what you need. One more thing is missing and that is the holster. If I had it my binoculars would look much nicer. They have a little heft to it, it is not easy to look through them and have a sturdy hand. The lather sling has also seen better days, harsh weather and the sun did a good job in destroying it. The serial number is there and readable, N62124555, the first two digits resemble the production year. In my case, it's been made in 1962. The company that produces them is still working and it produces all kinds of optical stuff. ZOMZ Zakonska is the company and it was founded in 1935, they specialize in sports optics and night vision. I said it before the build quality is great you can crack walnuts with it. When it comes to value you can find USSR binoculars on the net from an average price starting at 20 to 40 dollars. Mine are not in that price range, because of the condition there are in. But if you have the holster, filters and they are in good condition you're looking at some nice numbers. Exploring, I stumbled upon a link here it is if you're interested. A really good price if you inherit one and got no use for them.
All pictures were made with my smartphone, and with the combination of my binoculars.

Happy spying steemers and thanks for reading my post.

All photos were made with my sony Z5 Compact and the Binoculars!