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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 1381775" data-attributes="member: 56622"><p>Interesting.  I feel the same way.  However, when I said that I could see better detail at distance with my 8x Promaster ELX ED than I could with my Vortex Viper 10x42, I caught some flak saying that it simply was not possible for an 8x to outperform a 10x at distance resolution.  The definition of resolution in this case being the ability of the two magnifications to separate line pairs. So maybe it's us against the world. Or maybe resolution is not the proper term in this case.</p></blockquote><p></p>