Conndomat
United States of Europe
Hi,I was told by someone in the trade that the 8x32 Conquest contains the 'innards' of the 8x32 FL, and when Zeiss re-designated with new product names, this FL was effectively re-packaged as a Conquest.
I can't confirm that!
The Conquest 8x32 is a great glass without a doubt, but optically it differs a little from the FL.
The Conquest has a tad warmer colors, is not quite as dominant in the green area, the edge sharpness is with the Con. even a little better, a touch less distortion but it shows a little more chromatic aberrations.
It is correct, the differences are deficient and only visible in direct comparison, but if you have spent a while with both glasses side by side, you can easily see differences.
So I don't think that the optical FL design was simply carried over to the Conquest, especially with the 10x56 the differences are more noticeable.
Andreas