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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3662090" data-attributes="member: 109211">I think you asked a perfectly reasonable question and well done Bruce for the detective work in coming up with the answer, and thanks to Pete for stepping in to help out too.It is easy to talk about 're-branding' and 'clones' but by no means all of these binos fall into these categories. Take a look at specs and you can find that some brands have gone for wider fields of view, or increased eye relief, or added ED glass and so on. If this seems to be product development by 'baby steps' and of not much significance this devalues the brand's attempt to align its products with its customers' needs and also ignores that sometimes major brands proceed in that way too. For example Leica's development from BA thru BN to Ultravid and Ultravid HD Plus took this evolutionary (rather than revolutionary) approach and some would say that Zeiss's HT is a souped-up FL.Lee</blockquote>