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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dracon" data-source="post: 1623336" data-attributes="member: 14799"><p>Dennis -my wife swears by her 8x20 Lelca trinovids, and I understand why.  Yet it and the Swaros and Zeiss compacts optically are not the equal IMO to the Nikon LX.  But the Nikon has two major "flaws"   which removes it from a serious comparison: double hinges and bizarre placement of the focusing mechanism.  Why Nikon chose to make a very small glass that requires more fiddling around with double hinges and little finger focusing is one of those design mysteries which pop from time to time.  The Nikon 10x25 is also cursed by the same design flaws.  John</p></blockquote><p></p>