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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ronh" data-source="post: 1264516" data-attributes="member: 55514">I never know what to call these various scattered light phenomena, but I hate them too. This spring, we were going to watch some owls and their young at dusk a lot of evenings. They were living in a hole in the side of a rocky canyon wall, and we had to look towards the setting sun, at the dark cliff wall. Bright sky was either within or just outside the field of view, and we were trying to see owls inside the dark hole, and as they moved about on ledges. This was very difficult lighting for these kinds of problems.The very best of my binos, in fact nearly perfect in this regard, was a Fujinon FMT-SX 7x50. My wife's 8.5x42 Swaro EL and my 8x42 Leica Trinovid BA were quite good but not as good, with the EL edging the BA a tiny bit. MUCH worse was a Fujinon FMT-SX 10x50. Once my wife forgot her bino (!!!) and was harshly punished by having to use the Nikon 8x25 Travelite that lives in the car. You could not see a cotton picking thing for the glare in that one.Ron</blockquote>