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Message: <blockquote data-quote="denco@comcast.n" data-source="post: 3173691" data-attributes="member: 25300"><p>Yes, the Dialyt is strictly for birding and nature observing. I don't do much bug watching. Your combinations sound good with the 7x for woodland areas. The Zeiss Conquest is the best birding binocular under $1K that I have tried and is very close to the $2K Swarovsion's and Zeiss alpha's. It is hard to have one binocular for everything and it doesn't hurt to have a few like you do for different purposes. The 42mm is better in those shaded woodland areas and the bigger EA helps to follow birds in flight with easier eye positioning. That is a good combination of 7x and 8x for different purposes. 7x for exploring and the 8x when you want to get up close up. The Zeiss Dialyt 7x42 is good for that purpose with it's super wide FOV @450 feet. I have 6x to 10x binoculars now for different purposes.</p></blockquote><p></p>