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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sancho" data-source="post: 1598991" data-attributes="member: 27039">On a political level, Brock old boy, I´m with you. And I´m really, really not a slave to marketing. But I had EII´s, and SE´s, and Swaro EL´s. I love, adore and revel in the view through the Nikon Premium Porros, but repeatedly, when all three binos were sitting on the shelf and I was rushing out the door to do some hard-earned birding, my hands instinctively reached for the Swaro Roofs! Reason being, (if I understand my own behaviour, which is doubtful), that (as brought up by a thread some years ago), it´s a question of the "overall package". I don´t mind "stubby" porros, but the roofs are easier to hold, focus and use "one-handed" (as I stride along with other hand on tripod over shoulder). I have never in my life seen any other EII´s or SE´s, other than the ones I owned/own, as birders here in Ireland don´t use them, or are unaware of them, or are psychologically healthy and concerned more with birds than with binoculars (not like us lot on BF-Binos). So I can´t compare with anyone I know. But I think that the actual optical differences in the field between the various "alpha" roofs and Nikon´s alpha porros are so minimal that other factors, basically ergonomics and the focus-wheel, determine my preferences. The SE´s are wonderful, wonderful binoculars to test and play with. But stacked up against premium roofs, with non-optical factors taken into consideration....(I´m not going to finish this sentence because on this thread, I may be burned at the stake<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />). Of course, I may be talking nonsense and change my mind next week, and the science of optics is far too esoteric for my small brain. In fact, when I went out yesterday looking for one of your American Blue-Winged Teal that seems to have gotten lost and ended up in Dublin, I reached for my Canon IS 10x30, which after all are porros.....with an important difference. Which is a whole different discussion.</blockquote>

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