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Message: <blockquote data-quote="etudiant" data-source="post: 3495362" data-attributes="member: 48052">Bruce,Thank you for your excellently comprehensive yet sober review of this glass.I find it a superb all round binocular, rather than a specialty use item, mostly because it so often gives the extra edge. For example, looking at small birds in the treetops in bad light is the norm at this time of the year.  Here the IS helps nail the ID better than anything else I know of. Also, not to be too worried about susceptibility to damage. A glass that is to be dumped into a bucket to rinse it from salt water has to be reasonably robust and so it has proved. Mine is about 10 years old, has served flawlessly in both tropical as well as arctic conditions and has now finally needed repair, earlier this year.</blockquote>