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Message: <blockquote data-quote="streatham" data-source="post: 1106763" data-attributes="member: 5001">Just to let you I was one of/the person whose focusing mechanism froze up on their LX's on here. It took a little while longer than I may have hoped but I just got my replacement LX L's. I have been borrowing a mates old 8.5x42 EL's for the duration of my Nikons being out of sink and I have to say I'm absolutely thrilled to give them back. Maybe it's just my eyes being accustomed to the LX's but I didn't find the Swarovski remotely as enjoyable to use - hard to describe the difference but the image on the EL's to my mind seemed less contrasty and not quite so crisp. Also couple in the fact that they feel clunky in the hand (to me) and that these were the old EL's with the slow focusing mechanism. For that reason alone I find it hard to believe that these bins every got picked up quite so much as they were by birders (at least here they dominate the market). I am sure they were good for hunters or birders scanning slow moving or stationary birds but for passerines forget it by the time you'd focussed the bird was gone. Anyway ecstatic to have my bins back - going to have to sneak out to use them at some point today. I wonder what their new bins will be like.Luke</blockquote>