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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stephen b" data-source="post: 3181359" data-attributes="member: 80110">David,I would agree with your assessment. When I tested (2) different samples of CL's against the previous recent Swaro 8x30 SLC NEU, A Swaro 8x32 EL, a Pentax 8x32 DCF ED; and even my previous 7x30 SLC (2000)- the CL was to my eyes definitely not as sharp.Compared to the SLC NEU that it replaced, it was obvious that the CL was not as sharp, same with the Pentax DCF ED, and obviously the Swaro 8x32 EL. And I have to say that it was even somewhat surprising to me that the 8x30 CL was not as tack sharp as my Swaro 7x30 SLC- even considering the 8x vs 7x. But, the 7x30 SLC that I had was a cherry sample.To me, even though the Swaro CL, had good build quality, it just did not line up to the usual Swaro optic quality. And that does not even take into consideration the quite narrow FOV.</blockquote>