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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scampo" data-source="post: 412214" data-attributes="member: 3381">Hi Bawko - what a fantastic test there! I tried to send the following as a private message but your inbox is full (I'm not surprised following such a test).I was, like many others, fascinated by your test. I was thinking it would be very useful also in the BF review section where it will be more easily accessible for future reference as I'm sure many will want to use it. Anyway, thanks very much for your time and patience in carrying it out. I own a pair of Swarovski 8.5x32 and have been pleased with them for the years I have owned them; that said, my brother has Nikon HG 8x42 (Monarchs in the US) and, despite a slightly narrower fov, the colour rendition and apparent sharpness is better to my eyes. I'm writing because I'm in the market for a pair of compact bins to take when I'm walking a good distance. I find the Swaros too bulky when the prime idea is not birding. Yesterday, I looked through all that my local shop had and concluded that the Swaro 8x20s were the best they had on offer - knocking spots of a pair of compact but decent Swifts. But... I found that I did not like the fiddliness of the two separate barrels so looked on the Internet and saw two other options from Zeiss and Nikon, which I couldn't test. Then I came across your test... You seem to point to the Nikon 10x20 as the one to get but, as I wear specs and although I prefer to use the naked eye, it is also useful to have a binocular with a fair eye relief, too and I've always found 10x bins wanting in this respect and impossible to see the full fov. I would be grateful if you have any recommendations for me - or would it still be the Nikon? And, have you tested the 8x20s, which, I presume would have much better eye relief and be more useable with spectacles?  Thanks again!</blockquote>

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