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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cantelo" data-source="post: 3456982" data-attributes="member: 2844"><p>Been there done that.  My 8x32 SEs are tucked away in a cupboard as my spare, spare pair. Having been heavily used and abused as only a birder can manage, they badly need recollimation, cleaning and general refurbishment. They were the binoculars that set me on a heretical path and I got a good deal of leg-pulling for having such quaint instruments.   One sales person telling me essentially that they had to be optically worse than roofs because nobody bought porros anymore. I recall getting a lot of ribbing from someone as we watched an Aquatic Warbler at Stodmarsh. He brandished his brand new Leica 8x32s telling me I ought to get some 'real binoculars' but went very quiet when he compared the optics directly.  I really should see if Nikon can refurbish them ...     Before I had them I sometimes used to go out with my old 8x32 Zeiss Jena porro bins  (rather than my then 10x42 Zeiss roofs) and it was certainly assumed by others that I couldn't know what I was talking about (something that some will still debate!)</p></blockquote><p></p>