Belt clip / holder for Zeiss Victory Pocket 8 x 25 / 10 x 25

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Tested and revised a number of times. Used multiple times a week fort short walks or day after day and all day long for hikes. It takes me two seconds from noticing something to actually observing it - and another three seconds to stow the Zeiss again. One-handed, apart from removing and replacing the lens covers, and without looking. DO NOT USE IT if you want your Zeiss to remain in pristine condition. You‘ll bump into things and thus scratch the upper side of the Zeiss and constant movement buffs the lower side against your trousers as well. Designed to hold the Zeiss with the eyepieces in the RETRACTED position. The lens covers are necessary to keep dust, mist or rain from settling on the eyepiece and reliably prevent (prevented, at least so far) the eyepieces from being joggled into a partially extended position over time which would loosen the grip. Best print them from a rubber material to make them more resilient against being stuffed into whatever (butt) pocket available when the Zeiss is in use. Print them in a signal color to find them again when dropped and to keep people from brushing against you and tear the Zeiss off. Personally, I don‘t carry the covers on short strolls on a sunny afternoon. Print the belt holder from normal PLA, there‘s enough flex and resilience in the pincers‘ design (so far). But print it with little infill as the jaws gripping the belt are a potential point of failure. They did splinter on me in a previous version (that had been slimmer). Print it at below max speed and with a small nozzle, which helps with the fit and durability of the pincers. Wear it on your trouser’s belt, obviously, well in front or in the back so as to not hinder arm movement. Or on the breast strip of your hiking rucksack. The curvature of the holder will keep it there even though the strip would seem to be too thin for the holder‘s jaws. When stowing the Zeiss again, lightly touch and slide it against the pincers until you feel them match the millimeter gap between the eyepieces and the body. Firmly push inward only then. Practice this a few times before doing it without looking. I never broke the pincers when doing it wrong, but disengagement then takes too much force to comfortably do it one-handed. When done right, engagement and disengagement only takes a few Newton (less than a pound of force). Try to first align the back pincer, not both at once. There are hooks at the end of the pincers to engage a fitting rubber band. When not in use, I carry this rubber band around the pincers, against the body of the belt holder, compare the picture. Engage it when dropping the Zeiss would be catastrophic, mountaineering for example. Often you‘ll be brushing a rock face on the other side, then, increasing the danger of inadvertently disengaging the Zeiss, especially when you carry it on the hill side hip. For your OWN safety, stow everything, including the Zeiss and the belt holder, your phone etc., in your rucksack before waltzing into such a situation. Added protrusions and your reflexes to protect your equipment can be fatal, a broken phone won‘t do an emergency call either. Adapt the design by stenciling your eMail on the inward facing, concave outside of the belt holder. I always do that and found people are more honest than media tell us. You are, too, are you not? Adapt the design for your eye distance, it currently fits mine to the millimeter. This also helps immensely with intuitively hitting the pincers spot on when stowing the Zeiss again. Adapt the design in case your belt is too thick. If it‘s very thin, usually that‘s not a problem - I sometimes don‘t wear a belt at all on my tight fitting jeans and the belt holder still stays put. Adapt the design if you need the Zeiss to be stowed with the eyepieces in an extended position.