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Message: <blockquote data-quote="typo" data-source="post: 3181418" data-attributes="member: 83808">Brock,I think Henry was among the first to make such a comment but there are no shortage of those that agree.It's complete speculation of course but I can see some logic in seeking to avoid the CL competing with and undermining the ELSV sales. If they pitched it at the lowest DIN ISO resolution standard allowed for a 'high quality' binocular it would be 8 arcseconds at 30mm and 12" at 20mm. Probably doesn't mean much to most here but it means that someone with 20/15 eyesight should see the EL was better. If they chose the standard for 'general' use then someone with 20/20 would be just able to see the difference. I suspect they are designed to sit close to the 'high quality' limit as that would account for what I see. That would be about two fold worse effective resolution than the best I've got and likely others in the Swarovski range. Of course not everyone here would see such differences.David</blockquote>