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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riverstalker" data-source="post: 3543591" data-attributes="member: 141551">I did a second run and just checked out my favourites. I concentraded mainly on ease of view, overall fit and finish, handling and of course colour reproduction.The winner when it comes to colours is the Noctivid ! The handling is somewhat strange though. It's a heavy brick and I tend to "jam" my fingers into the bridge when adjusting IPD. Same with the Trinovid 2012/2015, the barrels come pretty close when adjusting them to my eyes. Noctivid is beautiful build and the greatest colour experience, focus feels better on the SF though.Zeiss SF clear winner in ergonomics ! Just more yellowish colours compared to the Noctivid. Checked for RB but nothing fancy. I may could live with it. Great view just not as washed clear than the Noctivid. Ease of view a little better than the Leica too.Swarovski CL Pocket 8x25 was again very easy on the eyes, nice optics, nice built quality. I want one of those anyway ;-) I think they are the clear winner within their class. Zeiss Conquest HD very nice overall, HT I could just try the bigger version but loved everything about it. All fine binoculars.These are my favs, I buy one the next weeks when I have more time to use them. Shop says in worst case I can swap them out for other model after a week or so. Just in case RB killes me or whatever can go wrong.The 2012/2015 Trinovid is out, the Leica Store won't go below 980 Euros and they are not worth it to me. Ease of view is medium at the most, the thumb rests are a bit akward and the barrels tend to push my fingers at ideal IPD. They are build like a dream and look just stunning though !!!After all I'd like to have the Noctivid colours in a SF housing <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Keep you updated folks and thanks for all the help and input !Cheers Max</blockquote>

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