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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kevin Purcell" data-source="post: 1363195" data-attributes="member: 68323">I think this is other side of the Promaster argument.The optics are very, very good. And the brand will be around too I suspect. They're rebranders, bying stuff from ODMs, so unless the financial crunch takes them out.But their optics have been a crap shoot in the past. I've tried two generations of them. And there's no guarantee that they'll have good models in the future. They could have just got lucky with a good Chinese ODM turning out a excellent bin rather than having "great taste". But that may be the wave of the future so good Chinese bins may be plentiful in the future. Or not.The price trade-off is significant. If they last 5 years then that's about the same yearly cost as 17 year old Zeiss (or a 20 year old Swaro) though even at the end of 20 years the Zeiss and Swaro still has some asset value. That said so long as they don't break (or fog) the optics will still be as good so the PMs should have some value.In fact even with the top end makers you don't know if their going to be around in 5 years (of the four I'd put my money on Nikon though they may be around but out of the sport optics business).Who knows in 10 years we may all be using porros again <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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