I just got back from Comic Con and discovered you guys have covered a lot more ground then I had anticipated, good for you!
There seams to be confusion about the macrobinoculars, maybe this will help. I’ve researched the macros for a long time and there appears to be only two macrobinoculars that were built, that I’m aware of! One is the “Hero” that utilizes the Eumig body and there is the “Stunt” version that you see Luke running around with. You can easily tell which is the “stunt” from the “hero” by the location of the view finder, the “hero’s” view finder is on the right side of the binoculars and the “stunt’s” view finder is on the left side. In the “filmed” scene where Camie and Biggs use them, they use the “Hero” binocs. In the rehearsal and publicity photo session of this scene, you see the “Stunt” binocs......The one used in the garage scenes is the “hero”.
I’m not going to break the secrecy here, but as for the lenses and the view finder on the “hero”, the camera they come from are rare and you can expect to pay between $700. to $1,500(maybe more when word gets out) to make Luke’s macrobinoculars. The partial pictures of the camera shown on the previous pages, is not the “exact” model, but it’s “really” close to it, it’s just missing the two little knobs on the lense. If the word finally gets out as to what the camera is, I’ll show off my collection of these cameras and show you the little differences there are in the models of this particular camera.
A small tidbit: the EumigÂ’s rectangular light collector, is the rectangular piece on top of the macrobinoculars body.
I wanted to answer the IMÂ’s I had gotten from some of you, to the questions about the my collection of eumigs that I posted a picture of.
**No, I’m not planning to sell any of mine. I’ve been trying to find as many as I could and preserve them, before they were found out and then got hacked apart and modified to make Luke’s binocs......Yeah I know! I’m one of those “fricken purest!” Sorry!
**As to where I bought all of my Eumigs, I bought everyone of them off eBay.
**To answer “why I’m a little tight lipped about the macros?” Just incase MR comes a calling and needs a prototype in the future! God knows, if MR’s built them to sell, they would be cheaper to buy then buying actual pieces to make your own!
A quick comment to “morganthirteen”. Love your scratch built macrobinoculars!! They’re a better representation of what we “think we see” on the screen, rather then how they actually are in real life, which is kinda of a disappointment design wise.
IÂ’ll try and check in more often to answer anymore question you may have.....questions that I can answer that is!
