I guess from all this that the state of the art, newest Swaro's are "too good". I'm safe. I'll just hang onto my older Swaro 7x50's, which BTW have the best FOV and exit pupil one could ever imagine. Check out those numbers. They're heavy, so I use them in the box blind while deer hunting. My packing around binos are Kahles 8x42. The glass is pretty close to the Swaro and in a neat, solid package. With those two, I'm not in the market for new binos...

DF