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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mark pearman" data-source="post: 1427184" data-attributes="member: 58348">Anyone have ANY further news as to when the 25-50 might be on sale in the U.S. ? Obviously, it will be much cheaper there than in Europe, and I'll be visiting the states in April.I have also steered clear of zoom lenses over the last 35 years and currently use the swaro 30x WA (see previous rave postings by others). I only changed my mind when I looked through the new prototype lens at the last Birdfair (compared it with the 20-60, 30x and rarely used 40x) and there is NO comparison with the 20-60 in focus quality ie. haze at the high end. Then there is of course the FOV which is as good as the fixed 30x, and which makes the 20-60 obsolete, so my guess is that once it's out on the market there could be a lot of secondhand fixed and 20-60 zooms up for grabs. I noticed a few people barking on about the need for more than 50x but I really don't understand. In 95% of cases you're squinting through an out-of-focus tunnel trying to guess what you are looking at. Now, if Swaro could produce a zoom that focuses that high they would have done so. And the answer is simple because of the new spec. Before anyone jumps on and says the Leica is better..... I agree that optically it may be !</blockquote>