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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3420312" data-attributes="member: 109211">Hi HenryFirst off, you are dead right that HT is an FL but improved in the characteristics you mention.With regard to the term 'crystal clear' and how it can be used for bins with less than perfect sharpness, well, it all depends what is meant by crystal clear. I suggest that some people, some of the time, are using the term crystal clear to describe a transparency of view. Remember the old hifi phrase 'it was as if a veil had been lifted and I felt closer to the music'. I am guessing that this feeling of having a slight but noticeable impediment to seeing the view removed is behind 'crystal clear' and has little to do with ultimate sharpness.Whle I am at it I will come off the fence regarding 8x42 HT vs SF, having had them both long enough and in different conditions to feel able to state that to my eyes, HT has the most brilliant, transparent and, yes, sparkling view. It also has a sweet spot quite big enough for me, but undeniably that of SF is bigger and the SF's FOV is just huge, and it doesn't lag far behind in the brilliance stakes either. In terms of usuability and enjoyment it is hard to put one in front of the other, but they are different.Lee</blockquote>