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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alexis Powell" data-source="post: 2361854" data-attributes="member: 5327">A friend of mine is buying new bins and has his eye on the Bushnell 8x36 Legend Ultra HD. Based on the few reviews I've seen, I was expecting to like it as much or more than the 8x42, but the first unit he was shipped is going back to the merchant. In contrast to the 8x42 units I've looked through, the fall-off of sharpness from center to edge was very abrupt and very extreme. They gave the same sensation as many cheap roofs--fine in the center but with a small sweet spot and big doughnut of fuzz around it--sort of a vortex of defocus and aberrations around a clear spot in the eye of the storm. One thing contributing to the small sweet spot was that the sharpest spot was toward the top of the view on the left side and toward the bottom of the view on the right side. I also noted that the horizontal alignment was poor. We'll give another unit or two a try, but I'm skeptical that I'm going to like the 8x36 as much as I do the 8x42. On that note, I tried another 8x42 recently, was again impressed with the view and found the build superior to any of the units I'd seen previously. It was very well aligned, had no ringing/rattling, had a properly calibrated diopter, and no focus knob slop.--AP</blockquote>