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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JasIA" data-source="post: 3270938" data-attributes="member: 130933">I've spent a couple hours with these two and here is what I've seen so far.  Center field resolution is darn good in both and they are realistically equal.  After looking at street signs, license plates, bumper stickers, etc. only once did one better the other and that was a bumper sticker where with the Vanguard I could read about 80% of the words and with the Carson I was able to read them all.  Edge resolution was good on the Carson and very good with the Vanguard.  With the Carson things were crisp out to 50% and reasonably clear out to 75-80% then they became a little blurry.  The Vanguard was crisp out to about 75% and only became slightly blurry all the way out to the edge.  Where edge resolution clearly went to the Vanguard, low light viewing clearly went to the Carson.  Again reading signs into the evening there came a point at which I simply couldn't make the letters out with the Vanguard but the Carson was still showing them clearly.  Although when looking at things not quite as distinguishable as letters, such as trees, leaves, houses, etc the difference was barely noticeable.  The Vanguards have silver coatings and the Carsons have dielectric, possibly influencing the low light performance.Looking at stars yielded crisp points of light with both bins but looking at a bright half moon there was an X through the entire field of vision on the vanguards.  There's probably a name for that.  You could also see it in the Carsons but to a much lesser degree.  Same when I looked at a street light.  Details of the moon and even the street light were still sharp.Ergonomics was actually the deciding factor for me.  Right out of the box I never really got along with the Vanguard.  They were not comfortable on my eyes or nose.  The Carson was very natural feeling and that is the reason I will keep them.</blockquote>

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