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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Themoog" data-source="post: 3514445" data-attributes="member: 140925">'Yeah but no but.....'Cheers Troubador.Ha ha - or I'll misinterpret some dolphins doing a double back flip through a hoop whilst whistling The Star Spangled Banner !Anyone reading this exchange must think we've completely lost the plot - 3<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />How I miss the wit and wisdom of Mr. Adams in this crazy world sometimes.The Conquest HD's sound extremely promising. I'm almost as excited about trying them as I am the MHG's. Both companies have such incredible provenance in optics. Hard to ignore. Just hope the effective ER on the Conquests is enough.The alleged, paper quoted, 18mm of the ones I have are adequate but not particularly flexible and a little fussy if I'm not square on.By all that I've read that should be plenty and my glasses are not bottle thick by any standards. I'm only a -1.5 on my left (post cataract surgery) and about -2.5 on my right.There again, my expectations of what's possible with glasses may be out of range. Undoubtably, binoculars seem more comfortable to use without glasses as partly they feel more 'joined' to me, partly steadier through a semi-MOLCET ready bone structure and also just that bit more, well, immersive.The curse of the short sighted !Care to put a width/diameter in mm on those Conquest x32 occular lenses' back/eyeball facing elements? (These are about 20.5 mm)As far as the whole Swarovski CL-P lens cap thing goes. Yes, I get that line of thinking. Zeiss seems to follow it too by not appearing to include them with their Terra x25's.Interestingly Kowa and Opticron take a different stance. Kowa including both sets and Opticron just the objectives I believe. I see that thinking too.The more I ponder it, the less it really seems to matter. Having said that I have an instinct born of handling, for a period of my life,  unbelievably expensive Panavision and Zeiss film lenses to protect exposed elements such as objectives and couplings as well as obsessive checking for lint etc. Far less critical on a robust little compact pair of bins but habits die hard.I'm sure I read on here someone who had ingeniously got round the lack of Swaro covers by buying some old small porro bins and/or fabricating a solution from the supplied covers.For me a close fitting hard/formed leather pouch would serve just as well.On that note it simply leaves me to say;'Oh freddled gruntbugly, thy micturations are to me, as plurdled gobbleblotchets on a lurged bee' :scribe:Tm</blockquote>

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