Jan Meijerink measures eye relief from the plane of the eyecup rim when fully retracted, not from the lens surface. He states this in his reviews, including this one. I measured the eye relief of an 8x30 CL Companion today, also from the eyecup rim plane, and got 13.5-14 mm, so consider Jan's measurement accurate. There's quite a bit of distance from the eyecup rim plane to the surface of the eye lens. I did not measure that but it looks like it could easily be 2 mm, so the specifications and Gijs' measurements are also correct. However, there's more difference between effective (usable) and nominal eye relief in these than in most binoculars.
When I tested the original CL, I noticed more colour fringing in the centre of the image than in some 300-500 euro HD binoculars I compared them to. With the CL Companion, to my eyes there is markedly less, and to me the image looks like that of most high-quality HD binoculars. Colour fringing is the only part where I don't agree with Jan's review.
Kimmo
When I tested the original CL, I noticed more colour fringing in the centre of the image than in some 300-500 euro HD binoculars I compared them to. With the CL Companion, to my eyes there is markedly less, and to me the image looks like that of most high-quality HD binoculars. Colour fringing is the only part where I don't agree with Jan's review.
Kimmo