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Message: <blockquote data-quote="captain vallo" data-source="post: 1244886" data-attributes="member: 12753">Are you saying that I shouldn't state that the pair of Leica BR's I owned had an issue with the focus wheel. The point I was making is that despite the vastly inflated price of the top bins they can still either have generic imperfections and possibly worse in my mind occasional build quality issues.As a rule top end 'stuff' should be designed and built for the purpose, along with the very best of materials and quality control and built to the tightest possible tolerances ... then the costs are calculated. Whilst low end 'stuff' is as a rule designed to a price with cost savings made in materials and quality control and wider manufacturing tolerances.When I buy my cheaper items, I know that I have to do my own quality control, I dont expect it on the Leica BR'sThe issue with the Swarovski is generic issue and a compromise of design, whilst the fault with the returned Leica's may very well have been a one off, but as the very experienced salesman advised me that it was a recurring issue which had been addressed in the HD's, leads me to think that its a design weakness.When Swaro realised they had made an error with the slow focus of the earlier EL's they fixed it.</blockquote>