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Message: <blockquote data-quote="denco@comcast.n" data-source="post: 3252781" data-attributes="member: 25300">The thread is definitely critical of the SV and favors Zeiss."As you can see the Swarovski 8x32 EL SV at the top shows much higher angular magnification distortion than the other two near the field edge, in fact at the very edge it’s higher than any other binocular I’ve seen except for other Swarovision models (I haven’t seen the Zeiss SF)""This causes one of the lighting conditions where veiling glare is most troublesome: for instance, when the eye is open to perhaps 5mm or more while looking into a darkly shadowed area underneath a bright sky at sunset. As you see the internal reflections are actually much brighter than the dark “subject” being viewed. Looking through the binocular under these difficult lighting conditions produces severe veiling glare, but even while using the binocular normally in daylight I noticed occasional flickers of veiling glare under lighting conditions I would not usually consider very challenging. The Zeiss FL photos, made under the very same test conditions, show just how much better internal reflections can be controlled."If that is not favoring the Zeiss I don't know what is. The point is are any of these anomalies really affecting the view that much. I don't think so. It is just bashing the Swarovski. All I say is try before you buy. Don't judge the binocular by these tests.</blockquote>