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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 1345228" data-attributes="member: 56622">Ron,You seem to be correct in your reading of the brochure for the Discovery, or else we are both wrong because that is how I read it as well. There is a review of the Discovery <a href="http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Steiner-Discovery-binoculars-reviewed" target="_blank">http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Steiner-Discovery-binoculars-reviewed</a> that also clearly states that this is a hybrid binocular (words mine) that has individual focus eyepieces and a center focus wheel.  The review states it takes some getting used to, but works very well.However the Steiner Peregrine XP is a left barrel single diopter.  I just got off the phone with Eagle Optics and the gal went and got a pair of the Peregrine XP and double checked.  She initially thought they were as described for the Discovery, but like I said, left barrel single diopter.  I was kind of glad to find that I had not missed an obvious feature like that.  But I do seem to remember the clerk commenting on "the diopter is on the left on this one".Perhaps Steiner figured out that a single diopter worked just as well and was easier to produce, who knows.  But the left barrel diopter seems to be a Steiner feature and has been the way of every Steiner roof I have looked at.</blockquote>