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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tobias Mennle" data-source="post: 3332226" data-attributes="member: 117315">Thanks for all your interesting input.My mantra is: Find the right binocular for your needs. This is trivial but so true. I will check the Zeiss and EDG 32s and then decide which one to keep, but my bet is on the Ultravid. And maybe Zeiss will make a huge step forward with the 32 SFs. The 8x32 Swarovision is so much easier to dethrone than the 8.5x42 IMO.About my criticism of the 8x32 Swarovision, I had one for almost a year parallel to a Habicht 8x30 and a Nikon SE 8x32. Small wonder I was underimpressed with the Swarovision. Flare in the SV seemed almost as bad as in the stone age Habicht, at 2.5x the price and at slightly lower sharpness. I then got a 8x42 SLC, and suddenly the contrast and flare suppression were what I expected from a premium glass (though in the end all other premium 8x42s I tested were sharper than the SV sample I had).I think the 8.5x42 Swarovision is a really great design with totally acceptable flare levels, but I already spent a lot of time with, and came to prefer the Ultravid and HT for my use. I am not interested in 10x and will have much less time for hobbies next year, so I don´t plan to review the 10x50 SV any time soon. About the brightness in the Ultravid 8x32, two more thoughts.1. Leica was deliberately going for that crisp, high contrast look and did not want to boost brightness as in the 8x42. Plus, the lower brightness definitely comes in handy on sunny days.2. Leica was simply pragmatic about the use of HT glass and so ended up not using it in the 8x32, but unfortunately forgot to mention that in the PR/manuals. Again, the brightness and images of the Ultravid look so similar to the Nikon EDG 8x42... or vice versa, as the Ultravid is the older design... and both have a very tight baffling.</blockquote>

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