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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chartwell99" data-source="post: 1270251" data-attributes="member: 5367">Minox has evidently elbowed aside the HG series binoculars in favor of a presumably even more expensive series called APO-HG. The Minox website tells us: "Pin-sharp optics with natural color rendition puts the new APO-HG binoculars from MINOX in a class of their own and first in the top league. The APO-HG 8.5x43 BR and the APO-HG 10x43 BR models impressively represent the latest technologies in binocular design. Featuring SCHOTT fluoride ED-glass lens elements these apochromatically-corrected binoculars deliver a brilliant color-fringe-free image."Anyone tried these yet? I liked the HG predecessors, especially the 8 x 33, but thought the shiny rangefinding focus knob a gimmick and the overall prices non-competitive vs. other sub-$1000 bins (like the Vortex Viper, Pentax SP etc.).</blockquote>