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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dracon" data-source="post: 1604192" data-attributes="member: 14799">John R - Thanks for your comments.  The 8x56 Dialyt has a FOV of only 330 feet per 1,000 feet.  It has to be considered in the forefront of awkwardness in handling. Even the Zeiss Victory and Conquest "compact" models 8x20 have wider fields.  Its popularity with Euopean hunters is unquestioned.  What isn't unquestioned is the sporting ethic which allows shooting at twilight from a shooting box (akin to a bench rest) on a game animal that lives in a confined area.  How the one power gain over Zeiss's 7x50 porro in twilight is a real advantage escapes me. I owned both models and have substantial hunting experience in what is call "fair chase" hunting, to which high seat hunting can't compare.    Until P coating came along the optics of the Zeiss 8x56 Dialyt couldn't match an inexpensive Bushnell 8x40 porro.  The Dialyt ought to be given a decent burial and forgotten. But as Twain said, "It is a difference of opinion that makes a horse race."  No,  it isn't a bird binocular.  It is a niche binocular as you pointed out. My comments on the Dialyt 8x56 were just an aside. Another aside.  I find it difficult to believe that Zeiss abandoned its lovely, portable, usable, and optically sound 8x30 B porro years ago.  John</blockquote>