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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ronh" data-source="post: 3377244" data-attributes="member: 55514">Nice review, and interesting discussion.  FWIW, I do see green, actually more yellow green to me, in Henry's photos.A much stronger color effect is seen viewing the color of light reflected back from the front of a binocular.  The color of light getting through is what remains after reflection takes its toll on color transmission.I have a cheapie with the much scoundrelized "ruby" coating.  It is amazing to look at grass through this thing, miscollimation and everything else aside; it looks like green fire!  I suppose that since the eye is not very sensitive to blue, the effective complement to red is green.  I suppose further that since the cheapie's interior coatings don't amount to much, its color presentation is dominated by this first objective surface effect, said to have been created merely as a jazzy selling point by the haters, or to make a brown deer stand out from green background by the lovers (but isn't everything brown in deer season?).Since the advent of T*,  Zeiss objective reflections have been red.  One might hope that Zeiss, in its wisdom, would  balance out the net color transmission by skillfully manipulating the wavelenghths of reflections deeper within, but judging from these photos and also common visual impressions, one would be disappointed.Which-all, I find sort of amusing, in the similarities between the lowest and the most highly exhalted.  Red reflected off the the front, what do you expect huh?  Swaro ELs reflect more yellow green.  My old Fujinon FMT-SX 7x50 reflects a pure green from every surface visible from the front, including the prisms.  What do you make of that?Fortunately I don't often much notice color bias in binoculars, except how fall colors look so "gold of the day" beautiful in a Leica.  Ron</blockquote>

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