What I find interesting in that argument is this...... Swarovski had a binocular called the SLC HD. It wore green armoring with some black accents, and was considered to be one of the finest hunting binoculars available, and I was one of them. A couple of years ago now (I forget exactly)Swaro redesigned this binocular and called it just an SLC, with the exact same optics (still HD), redesigned armoring, a touch lighter, and some tweaks to the focus mechanism. All these improvements resulted in a price drop of several hundred $$$$$.
Nobody here at the 'fire had a word to say about that, that I'm aware of. I guess since it still wore a silver hawk emblem and had SWAROVSKI printed on the body, nobody wanted to second guess that. BTW, it is still one of the finest hunting binocs you can buy.
Yup.
I'd own the SLC over the new "Swarovision" bins. The "new" SLC is likely the best buy in the world of 42mm binoculars.
