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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 1511680" data-attributes="member: 56622">I think that might be a fair assessment.  One of the reasons I did not try and pre-order a Bushnell Legend HD was because it has been my understanding that the ED glass worked better at longer focal lengths rather than shorter ones.  The Intrepid and its kin are longer than the Legend HD.  I once talked to the technical people at Vortex about the Vipers and they said while the Viper's XD glass was true ED glass (Abbe number over 90), the CA suppression was better in the 50mm Vipers than the 42 mm because the extra length worked to the advantage of the ED glass. Also it would seem to be hard not to give up some edge distortion to the wide field of the Legend HD when keeping the price in the $300 range and using ED glass to boot.  It seemed to me that there were too many compromises to balance there.  I also look forward to the comments about the Legend HD.But at any rate, the Intrepid seems to be a top quality binocular that seems to control CA quite well.</blockquote>