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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spyglass" data-source="post: 1647398" data-attributes="member: 18470">Dennis, send the little Elite to Bushnell in Kansas City and explain the trouble.....they'll likely replace it. I have one and have compared it to the Nikon LX and the Swaro 8x20, and much prefer to either. Not WP, but if it's rainin' I'm inside, or at at least in the car. To me, the only advantage to WP is that it's also dust-proof, which in the long run will be a plus. Didn't get to try beside a Leica (which is supposedly the best of the 8x20's) or the Zeiss, but with my big mitts, I find all the teeny little roofs difficult to use. So, I've become an Elite booster ('specially at $250).FWIW, in my 50 yrs of bino usage, and having owned over 75 of all kinds, I've never had one get wet or fogged inside, and only 6 of them were sealed.</blockquote>