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Saturday, 19 October 2013

BARR & STROUD C.F. 24 8X30

It is built like a tank and is very heavy, despite having a bakelite prism housing covers. If you can get an optically clean C.F. 24 it should be very bright and sharp. It is worth to have it professionally cleaned. It can easily compete with the best German optics (will not win the gold medal : ) but it's definitely better than Deltrintem/Jenoptem brothers. It's drawback is its minimum focus distance - only about 8 m. Great Britain binoculars are very interesting because they have a wide range of design and built approaches. This one has an interesting strap fitting.






Second opinion: Simon Spiers, WpgBinocular
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8 comments:

  1. Unknown3 October 2014 at 16:58

    Hello! I also have these binoculars. I Cleared prisms and lenses. Binoculars showed excellent sharpness and good color reproduction, but the box is slightly narrower than the Leitz Binuxit, possibly due to deeper eye cups. Very interesting way of collimation, the four screws holding the lens.

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  2. Unknown3 October 2014 at 16:59

    sorry "field of view"

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  3. Gregor Bernard3 October 2014 at 18:17

    Interesting. They both have declared the same field of view: 150 m / 1000 m. They seem pretty much the same to me, too. Binuxit has much more neutral colours, while C.F. 24 has more yellow/sand tint.

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  4. Alan12 September 2015 at 21:03

    Barr and Stroud were Scottish not English. They were based in Anniesland in Glasgow.

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  5. Gregor Bernard13 September 2015 at 00:03

    Thank you for your comment.

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  6. Rob17 August 2019 at 15:23

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  7. Rob17 August 2019 at 15:24

    Fine Scottish binocular maker Barr and Stroud`s best 8x30 is the brilliant CF24, -very wide,very sharp and with excellent internal build quality although the thick bakelite lens hoods are unusual . However they do not dent when dropped and the collimation method is clever and very easy. The Art Deco styling is elegant and chunky !

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  8. Anonymous28 August 2023 at 14:01

    I have the CF24's in excellent condition and I really like them. Glasgow's finest and worth collecting.

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