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Message: <blockquote data-quote="etudiant" data-source="post: 3113456" data-attributes="member: 48052">The Canon 10x42ISL is a superior product with lots of flaws that could be easily addressed in a Mark 2 version. James Holdsworth highlights some of the more pressing, although the shape is probably fundamental and hard to change.The warranty issue is a non starter imho for an electronics producer such as Canon. Their consumer optics, mostly cameras, usually have only 2-3 years of production life, so long warranties make no sense. In fact, just finding spare parts becomes problematic in a hurry. Binoculars are too small a business to justify changing the corporate warranty policy. To compensate, Canon does offer the consumer a superior product in this space at a 50% discount from the other alphas. Kimmo is entirely right that removing the IS from their glass would be self defeating. Canon is not attuned to fighting on the same terrain as the other alphas, offering 'peace of mind' and 'lifetime warranties'. Rather they will succeed or fail on the strength of their innovations. My only concern here is that although Canon has greatly expanded their IS binocular product line, they have been slow to add improvements or new models at the leading edge. There is no 12x50ISL or even a 10x30ISL to complement the increasingly venerable 10x42ISL.</blockquote>