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Message: <blockquote data-quote="henry link" data-source="post: 1384888" data-attributes="member: 6806">I agree with the Colonel here. I had been waiting to see what Nikon would do and this is not what I'd hoped for. The only advantages I see in the new Nikon over the Kowa 88mm is a 75x eyepiece and (I hope, but can't tell for sure) they have continued to use their superior implementation of the Schmidt prism in the angled version. Unfortunately they have followed Zeiss and Leica and changed to a Schmidt-Pechan prism in the straight versions, something that makes no sense at all.It's strange that 60x as a maximum magnification seems to have such a grip on spotting scope designers. Haven't they noticed that their large telescopes can do better than that?And yes, it does look like a big flashlight.</blockquote>