Indeed, the late model 32mm designs really can rival the 42s, much of the time. Great image quality, bright, and they handle so nicely. I tend not to enjoy bins smaller than 32s much, myself. For me, 32 is definitely a sweet spot.I am approaching 60's and recently have been downsizing from 10x50 to 10x42 and now start packing a 10x32 and 8x25 for vacations and trips. Great things were the modern compact binoculars is as good or not far below the performance of full size binoculars.
I don't think, the 32 mm. market is dominated by the SF and NL, Leica is already behind Zeiss and Swarovski with the 42 mm. Noctivid.Any news on Noctivid x32 yet ? It's unthinkable that Leica does not have any plan for this format ?