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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ceasar" data-source="post: 3367988" data-attributes="member: 26155">Swarovski designed and used larger more costly oculars to get longer eye relief and a wider field in the 42s than the HGs had.   Not that the Nikon HGs had short ER because they did not.  Except for their age and coatings the 32mm HG versions weren't that much different.  When Nikon came out with their EDG about the same time as Swarovski came out with the SV they also upgraded the ER slightly and the FOV quite a bit in the 42mm versions.  The 32mm versions got slightly longer ER; FOV remained the same. The flat field remained in all of them.And we should not forget that Nikon also introduced their flat field 7x42 EDG at about the same time that Swarovski discontinued its 7x42 SLC B.I have a 10x32 EDG and a 10x32 HG L.Bob</blockquote>