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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 1520294" data-attributes="member: 56622">Here is a quick rating on image as it stands now.1  Leupold Gold Ring 7/12x32 Switch Power.  Sharpest image with good contrast and very good color rendition.  Very decent control of edge distortion and good CA and Fringing Control.  Plus that handy 12x Switch function.2. Swift 7x36 Eaglet.Image is maybe a bit behind the Leupold, although resolution seems about the same.  The colors, particularly yellow, appear not quite as bright as the GR.  This has the best CA and color fringing control of the lot3.  Dead Heat; 6.5x32 Raven, 6.5x32 Fury, and 6.5x32 Minox.  I'd have to see it to believe it that somebody could consistently separate the images.  Very good, just a very little less sharp in center field than the other two.  The Minox is hampered by loss of versatility of the IF feature, but there is nothing wrong with the image of any of the three, unless you are a very highly image conscious person, in which case the GR is even a bit (a very little bit) below the alphas as far as I can tell.  In a bit of an apples and oranges, the 7x26 B&L probably belongs here too.  The fov of the Fury will elevate this in the eyes of some viewers, I think.4.  Leupold 6x30 Yosemite.  The only reason it is not tied with the above three is that, for me anyway, the image appears noticeably smaller than the 6.5x above.5.  Vortex Diamondback 7x36, Bushnell Birder EX 7x36.  Neither are keepers.  The Diamondback is unusable for eyeglass wearers, there is 5mm of space between the collapsed eye cup and the lens.  The Bushnell EX is unusable without glasses.  Fully extended, the eye cup is only 13mm above the lens (unless there is sample error in mine).  As far as I can tell, they are the exact optics (all light reflections and lens colorings are exactly the same) in different frames, one traditional (DB) and one open bridge (EX).  The image is decent for a $200 ish binocular, but the edge distortion and field curvature will be distractions for some.  The EX was advertised initially as having a 488' fov.  It is really  409'.  The DB is 410'.</blockquote>

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