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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stephen Prower" data-source="post: 3416062" data-attributes="member: 115634">Opticron 8x32 WP monocularTom666:I hope that some other visitor to the Bird Forum responds to your request for a review of the big Opticron 8x32 monocular.Otherwise you're right that the Bird Forum and web supply only scanty comparative reviews* of the big x30 or x32 monoculars in the Monk, Kite, Helios, or Opticron ranges.I've searched again, and reminded myself that I too had to buy the Helios on the basis of just one useful comparative review (which for present purposes unhelpfully did not specifically mention the Opticron).But at least as to the Opticron (assuming the 8x30 and 8x32 to be much the same optically) you have two comparative reviews rather than my one to go on:* There's Mike's review on Amazon on 31 March 2015.* And there's FrankD's posts in the Bird Forum thread 'Which monocular' that JohnnyScience started on 2 April 2013.Further there are virtually no negative reports in the non-comparative reviews.I was indeed able to 'Try before I bought'.But buying on the information before you is still better than plunging solely upon the basis of advertiser's 'puff'!Stephen* By 'comparative review' I mean a review by a person with experience of good optics</blockquote>