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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3404849" data-attributes="member: 109211">GYou are not necessarily wrong and not necessarily right.All the bins manufacturers have their own anti-reflection coatings and these all balance out the colour spectrum that they pass in a slightly different way. This can be for many reasons, some of which are related to the manufacturer's idea about the best colour balance between daytime vision and twilight vision as the human eye changes how it processes light from daylight to twilight. This gives rise to a different colour balance reaching the eyes of the bins user and different folks find these different colour balances attractive or maybe not so attractive.Don't forget many birders use their bins for viewing stuff other than birds including the view from their home or their place of work etc. I am sure many hunters do the same and indeed look at birds too. Folks have different preferences for the colour balance of these views.Plus different folks have different perceptions about what 'true to life colours' really are and we all get used to using our favourite bins probably get used to thinking those colours are natural.Almost certainly no manufacturer makes bins that are entirely faithful to nature's colours under all lighting conditions.Lee</blockquote>