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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sancho" data-source="post: 1723933" data-attributes="member: 27039">Thanks for the explanations again, Ronald. The 12x36 IS suffered one of those idiotic "Dad leaves binos on hall-table, kids run through hall" accidents. Fell onto the floor and got knocked out of collimation. I sent them off to Canon, the repair wasn´t great so I sent them back, and they replaced the IS mechanism as well as correcting the collimation. Oddly, I´ve never been happy with them since...the IS doesn´t work as it used to, and "lurches" vertically a lot. I got the 10x30 IS in the meantime, and love them. Brighter, wider and more compact, and a bit sharper too. I miss the 12x36, but the 10x30 are more "all-round" binos. As regards the accident, it´s one of the downsides of the Canon IS - I wonder if they can be repaired at all. More importantly, kids and Dad´s fave binos don´t really mix!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />  I think your combination of 10x and 18x sounds perfect. The heartache now involves deciding what to sell in order to fund them....EII´s? ED50? ZR? The whole lot? (It´s at times like this I feel really silly for buying too many binos...)</blockquote>