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Message: <blockquote data-quote="denco@comcast.n" data-source="post: 3377533" data-attributes="member: 25300">Henry was just using other examples to display the greenish tint in Zeiss binoculars but Cyclist observed it in the SF. There are other documented examples of the greenish tint in the SF's. Tobias's excellent review displays the green color bias of the Zeiss SF and even explains why you may not notice the greenish tint when looking at something white like your "bleached calcium" beach you described. Here he quotes:"The point is: Looking at white you will hardly see any color cast, for a couple of reasons - the logarithmic nature of our vision which makes us unsensitive to brightness and colour differences in highlights, but emphasizes shadows and midtones. Plus, the fact that highlights are normally white or should be white and the brain will strongly correct for this.So yes, your white egret will look white even with the Zeiss SF.When a hard-boiled binocular fan complained to me about grey harriers looking grey-green observed with the SF I realized that this fit with my experience -"it´s the midtones, stupid" - I really resent to watch the brown-grey bark of my apple trees with the Zeiss SF, they look weird, and my red bird house just looks subdued in colour, as red is weakened by the complementary colour cast of the SF.Our vision is optimized for shadows and midtones, here we can discern much smaller differences in brightness and colour casts. So I zoomed into the center of the images to find a uniform patch and get rid of vignetting, and then lowered the brightness, just that white would be mapped to a middle grey. I did not touch colour, just reduced brightness , this makes colour casts more visible."Here some pictures from his review showing the green casts of the Zeiss SF compared to other binoculars he tested. Also, here is the link to the review.<a href="http://www.greatestbinoculars.com/allpages/reviews/shootouts/shootoutpremier8x42s/8x42shootout.html" target="_blank">http://www.greatestbinoculars.com/allpages/reviews/shootouts/shootoutpremier8x42s/8x42shootout.html</a></blockquote>

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