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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OPTIC_NUT" data-source="post: 3327535" data-attributes="member: 121951">Often times, binoculars that show more glarelooking into the objective end don't perform as badly asit seems they should.  That usually comes from a formof 'shark's tooth' ribbing or baffle angling, that steers glareback out the front, away from visibilty from the eyepiece.To see this effect, put your eyes closer in than the eye reliefin the presences of glare-producing light out-of-field.A proper 'shark's tooth' baffling, like in the Meopta Meopros,  will flash obvious bands and parts looking in the front,    but have a single crisp   black cutoff looking from the eyepiece    side...no parts visible, perfect contrast.One just on the edge, like the Nikon Aculon 10x42s, will have a    'ring-of-fire', and some parts faintly visible.  Still others will show    more distraction, but you have to move the eye in.A design looks very different from the eyepiece than from the objective.Shadowing, and especially, assymetric baffling.So...there isn't much mystery to something looking shiny one waybut nice and black the other way.Often, it was designed that way, and the one is related to the other.</blockquote>