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Message: <blockquote data-quote="denco@comcast.n" data-source="post: 3220758" data-attributes="member: 25300">I take back what I said about the Nikon 8x30 M7's. F88 you are correct they are "Glare Monsters". I was panning with them and it is not even SUNNY but overcast and rainy and when I would pan from the ground and go straight up I would get glare that whitewashed the whole view. The glare would start from the bottom of the FOV and then spread to cover the entire FOV. These are the latest models from Amazon.com too because I just purchased them. So Nikon has never corrected the problem at all. I compared my Nikon 8x30 EII's, Leica Trinovid's 8x32 BA and my Swarovision 8x32 SV's and the EII's were the best for this kind of glare followed by the Leica Trinovid's and then the Swarovski 8x32 SV's BUT the SV was still way better than the Nikon M7's in controlling this kind of glare. Those little M7's are terrible for glare I don't care what ANYBODY says. I returned them to Amazon. I also saw no bare metal surfaces in my particular sample of M7's either because I looked very carefully.</blockquote>