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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GunnarGG" data-source="post: 3609022" data-attributes="member: 141069">Tried it a bit during the weekend following some birds (and also saw some dragonflies). One evening I had a look at the sky and compared to my Pentax and can now say that the larger FOV makes a noticeable  difference.As I look at it now it's a very nice binocular except for the stiff focus.Especially my Pentax but also the small Nikon that I otherwise don't like very much have a smooth and easy focus. On the FL I need to use more force and push my finger harder on the focus wheel so it's hard to make the fine tuning. That makes that I have to rock the focus back and forth maybe 4-5 times before I get it where I want it. There is no slack, it's just to high resistance for fine adjustment.It's not acceptable for most binoculars and not in this price range.I don't think the price reflects that it should be a lemon. The store always have some product with some good discount, bike, tent, bag, jogging shoes or whatever. About a week ago the conquest 8x32 had a 90 euro discount and then back to ordinary price again. Before I found the FL with discount it sold for ordinary price and I saw no signs of it being opened or used before even though I can't tell for certain.Will see the coming weekend if I can show it for a Zeiss guy and here what he/she says.If I can get the focus sorted i will keep it, otherwise it will probably go back.</blockquote>