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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tenex" data-source="post: 3684348" data-attributes="member: 135233">The SLC 56 will obviously be significantly brighter than any 42, if that's part of "wow" for you (it was for me).  But you'd absolutely have to try an IS and non-IS bino yourself to decide between them.  I have no experience with IS in a bino and haven't been curious, it just sounds like such a different experience aesthetically.  (I bought my first serious digital camera with AF, IS etc a couple of years ago, and can't really say it's won me over yet.)SLC 10x56: eyecup outer diameter 40mm, about the same as the EL 50.  Objective spacing at my IPD (about 67) is 12mm more than ocular spacing, a bit less than the FL 56.</blockquote>