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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PeterPS" data-source="post: 3332109" data-attributes="member: 124043">Gijs:When I saw the comment by Tobias I was sure that it will touch a cord with all those who like the Kite. While I also found the said comment a bit strong I am sure that Tobias has facts to back it up. Personally I bought a Kite 8x30 about one year ago, but returned it rather quickly. On paper everything looks good for Kite, but the eyecups of my unit did not stay put (in fact that was a known issue, and  I got the unit with o-rings fitted under the extended eyecups), the glare was very poorly controlled (likely the price paid for the wide FoV and high light transmission)  and the specs for diopter compensation range were wrong---the latter aspect was particularly important to me, and I contacted Kite's owner (I cannot remember his name right now); he confirmed that the said range was -/+4, but when I told him that it cannot be more than -/+3 he backed off and said that perhaps it is only -/+3.5......Peter.</blockquote>