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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nixterdemus" data-source="post: 3604362" data-attributes="member: 96265">Perhaps the perfect compact should be a 6/6.5/7x instead of shootin' for the stars w/8x. Easier eye placement and a tad brighter. I see comments on a 10x30 bin as being dim or too much X when a drop to 8x would afford 3.75 ep, which is right at the 15x56 vulture ep, but the compact world is crammed w/8x from 20-25mm objective.Are all the buyers Bond, James Bond? Does one really need that 1/1.5/2x extra to read license plates on an international jewel thief speeding away in an Aston Martin? Mike Hammer cannot ease one step closer to read the matchbook cover the moll just pulled from her clutch purse; as she walked outa that two-bit dive dressed to the nines stinking of gin? All the talk of optical compromise save the compacts. Is it sacrilege, are they lens of deity do you gotta kiss the Pope's ring for cryin' out loud?</blockquote>