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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CLRobles" data-source="post: 1580161" data-attributes="member: 76360">The timing is indeed good! I went out this morning for a archery elk hunt and the hunter had, low and behold, Fujinon 7x50's!!! Now I'm not sure what model they were... Probably not the much heralded 7x50 FMTR-SX although it looks like it to me? Anyway my results were strikingly different than Bobs! Not only did the 10x42 SE completely dominate it in the low light it was also able to give better color rendition, contrast, and to me a better FOV. Although the Fuji may have indeed have a better FOV its inferior design led it to give a tunnel feel while viewing where as the SE has a very open view with almost zero barreling affect. Now we were out at 345 am with only the moon light out and with the heavy forest most light could not penetrate.... The Nikon was still able to resolve in most areas of the forest. Enough to look into stands of trees from across large cuts and pick out game where as the Fujinon was dead! The Fuji could at close, very close ranges (under 50 yards) resolve but failed completely when distance was added! While the SE was working from the start the Fuji finally started to resolve at almost 6am! It took some of the sun to get them going! This is nothing new to me and it is, as I have said time and again, something that happens every year in camp.... The hunter comes up with his low light 7x or 8x in ANY configuration and they just fail when trying to compete with the Alpha 10'sAnd one last thing, I'm not trying to rub this in anyone nose I just want the OP to have the correct info before they go out to look for a specialty bin...</blockquote>

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