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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spyglass" data-source="post: 1629011" data-attributes="member: 18470"><p>Actually, I'd like ta see a 12x50IS and a 15x56 or even 15x60.....the more glass out front the better. Keep eye relief at 15-16mm and afov at 60*+. I firmly believe that if Canon really wanted to, and determined the market for $1500 plus binos wasn't already saturated, they could design and produce "alpha" binos that would, at the very least equal, and likely surpass anything out there. Their lines of lenses are unsurpassed (now there may be an individual lens from, say, Nikon, Zeiss-Ikon, Hassleblad, etc, that may have a slight edge vs the competing one from Canon), and that can easily translate into bino excellence and inovation. Their IS system is far superior to the others on the mkt and their long experience w/UD (or ED if u prefer) glass & flourite, complex coatings (and credit here goes to the WW2 affiliation w/Zeiss in learning how to coat lenses), and impact-resistant chassis (learned from pioneering in composite camera bodies) would be a formidible competitor. But alas, with Zeiss, Nikon, Swaro & Leitz in the "alpha" strata, and several "near alpha" offerings it probably wouldn't be worth it.</p></blockquote><p></p>