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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dwever" data-source="post: 3351135" data-attributes="member: 118803">Being someone who has used 3rd tier binoculars around $300+; and second tier binoculars in the $1,000ish range in part-time State law enforcement; at each level I was thrilled because I didn't know anything else existed.  When I stepped up from the Steiners to the Zeiss Marines where the latter are probably just not quite alphas but well better than Conquests I thought that was just stunning and they were.  But then one day just outside of Montgomery, Alabama I looked across a massive Bass Pro out the window and to the highway through some Swarovision EL 10X42's and I thought, "are you kidding me?"  So now I own an Ultravid HD Plus, and my personal answer to are the alphas worth the extra coin is resoundingly yes.  I don't begin to have the experience or frame-of-expertise most who post on this forum do.  I did know those Zeiss Marines permitted me to clearly look right in to a car as they came over a hill, even at dusk, and write the seat-belt ticket as a result.With the alphas, the law of diminishing returns is undeniably in play, but even so, they are fully worth the price of admission.</blockquote>