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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chosun Juan" data-source="post: 3328767" data-attributes="member: 92780">Hi Steve, I know he doesn't actually own one!I meant that in the sense that Brock has often enunciated his satisfaction with the distortion and field characteristics (for his eyes) of the Swarovski SLC (Neu, HD, or now just plain SLC), as well as the EL (before the advent of the Swarovision field flatteners) as his moreorless ideal bin available to him on the shelf - all he has to do is choose a format (8x, 8.5x, or 10x and the appropriate objective size of his choice) and actually buy one!There must be heaps of deals or good used units available, and I'm sure Swarovski could fine tune or at least improve any minor niggles with it's extensive customer servicing.Then he could wax lyrical on the joys of using a fully waterproof instrument rain, hail, fog, snow, or shine, instead of the endless crusade against flat field designs ..... I'm sure that Swarovski, and now Zeiss, are well on top of working on the delicate balancing act between those FF bin's distortion curves, in concert with user's own varying distortion profiles.  Swarovski has actually tweaked the FF formula a couple of times, and if you dig and read carefully you'll find that Zeiss has already flagged the same agenda ...... For anyone else, suitable models already exist   :cat:Perhaps some of the good ol' boys near Brock could organise a holiday road trip with him down to Proud Papa's ...... I have a feeling that once Brock puts a Zeiss HT to his eyes though, he'll be singing a different tune!   :t: Chosun  :gh:</blockquote>

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