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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stephen Prower" data-source="post: 3505249" data-attributes="member: 115634">David1. As to the figure of resolution, <7* or <10*, I prefer to rely more (!) upon the documentation that is supplied with the binocular.I didn't see softening, and whereas there are two gross errors in the documentation on the website--the Field of View and the Close focus distance--, the documentation with the binocular seems to be accurate as to the first, and at least is silent as to the second.2. To consider further the reliability of the documentation on the website, the website supplies the same documentation for the individual focus Comet AX8:<a href="https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/AX8-6x24-russian-military-binoculars_60241149898.html?spm=a2700.7724838.0.0.FKvnIb" target="_blank">https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/AX8-6x24-russian-military-binoculars_60241149898.html?spm=a2700.7724838.0.0.FKvnIb</a>as it supplies for the central focus Comet AX24, even though, quite apart from the presence or absence of a central focussing mechanism, the two binoculars have markedly different bodies (Compare the bottom base plate!).3. If the documentation on the website included the weight, it would give away that the website is indeed using the same documentation willy-nilly for two different binoculars.But unhelpfully the weight is not included in the documentation!4. With the weight, incidentally, the fun and games continues, because the documentation with the binocular does include a weight: 0.805kg!In fact I weigh the binocular to weigh circa 17oz (482g).So I go on to weigh the binocular case, which I find to weigh circa 11oz (312g). So I confirm that the figure supplied by the documentation with the binocular, unhelpfully for comparative purposes, also comprehends the weight of the binocular case.5. It's pointless to go on.Good though to see that Comet continues the good old Soviet tradition of supplying a case that weighs almost as much as the binocular!Stephen</blockquote>

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