I mailed my 1990 8X30 SLC back to Cranston for replacement of a busted diopter adjustment wheel today and asked that the binocular be "checked." I sure hope they run an upgrade in on me! This is an instrument that failed under much less than severe use while desert mule deer hunting two years in a row around 94-95. The second time they went back to Austria for a complete rebuild. The busted diopter wheel is the first trouble that I have had with this one since then. Jack

"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people...who have...rejoiced in their loss of freedom....Blame the people who hail him when he speaks of the 'new, wonderful, good, society'...to mean ,..living fatly at the expense of the industrious." Cicero