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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jring" data-source="post: 3407613" data-attributes="member: 133897">Hi,any halfway decent 8x30 will run circles around an 8x20, be it swaro or not. It will: - be brighter in low light situations, although not necessarily in bright sunlight- have a vastly wider field of view- be a lot easier to use due to a bigger exit pupil and thus less finicky eye placement plus ergonomicsI'm quite sure that the SR GA 8x32 will do so too, although I don't know them. Maybe take your baby swaros to that store and compare them to the Opticrons and maybe you find a well known alpha in 8x32 at that store too, so you could write down your impressions on those three - tech data are not so interesting as they can be found online, but stuff like how large is the sweet spot - does the image get blurry at 60 or 80% or is it sharp to the edge or colour rendition - just hold the EP in front of a well lit piece of white paper and look through the objectives and write down which bins are brighter and if there's a colour cast.Or if the eye relief figures are correct - bring some glasses - real ones, shades or the ones from 3D cinema and try if you can see the whole field of view with the glasses too.Or try to stretch your budget to fit in a pair of Nikon E2 and get those - a nicer view than those either needs serious luck to score a used pair of Nikon SEs, roughly double the budget for a swaro Habicht with some quirks or investing $$$$ in an alpha.Joachim</blockquote>