Alex post 1220,
When I wrote "inspired by"I did not mean that the SF was a sort of copy of the Dialyt 6x42B, since that is in my view unlikely.
The Dialyt has Abbe-König prisms whereas the SF has Schmidt-Pechan prisms. Moreover the balance of the Dialyt is more to the centre of the binocular due to its obviously different eyepiece design, whereas the SF has a wide angle eyepiece may be (but Bryce you do not have to read this since you do not like speculations) a modified Abbe eyepiece or a modified König eyepiece or even a sort of Erfle eyepiece, we do not know until we see a cutaway of the SF.
Why I posted my "fairy tale"is the following. In the heart of the Zeiss team some persons work already a long time there and they know everything about the design and plusses and minusses of previous models. Persons like dr. Walter Schwab and certainly mr. Volker Claudi, produkt manager for a long time, who knows every model from the past 30 years and the discussions around optical and technical choices and the discussions about the color of the body armor (Bryce, I know fully unimportant for actual use, but for the looks of the instrumen and the attreaction for the eye so nice or so bad dependent on your taste), so it is not so bold to phantasize that in one way or another the Dialyt 6x42 may have played a role in the heads of the designers. If you do not like my phantasies Bryce, do not read them and wait for the actual instruments to come, I am just as curious as you are probably, allthough I have some idea already from the samples I had in my hands during an exhibition of the new SF's.
Gijs