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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bencw" data-source="post: 3354657" data-attributes="member: 118729"><p>I tried a little experiment awhile back. A friend wanted a good used 10x binocular, he knew nothing at all about binoculars, had moved to the country and wanted me to find him one, insisted 10x but had no reason as to why, he wasn't bothered about cosmetics, just that it was good optically. I actually found him a bargain near mint 10x Leica BN. I gave it to him, together with a Zeiss 10x40 T*P,  and a  Leica 8x32 BN, not cosmetically perfect, but both optically perfect, both of which I was going to sell, and told him him to use them and let me know which one he wanted, he could have any one for the same price, which was actually less than I paid for them. I showed him how to focus them and adjust diopter setting etc. He tried them a while, and eventually picked the 8x32BN, he did not know why, or anything about FOV, brightness, image shake etc, etc, all he knew was when he used them, in his words " the 8x32  gave the best picture" . It was what I expected, and the reason I gave him both 10x and 8x to try.</p></blockquote><p></p>