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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swarovski Man" data-source="post: 3686014" data-attributes="member: 125877"><p>I have had four pairs of Conquest HDs and the focussing has been excellent on all of them, although there can be a tiny amount of play if you look ( or feel ) for it, but batch variation does exist and I know others who have had poor focussing.  I remember trying a pair of 8x42s in one shop that had focussing so bad that it felt as though you were going over a series of ridges.  On the same theme, my two Terra 8x42s had similar smoothness but different tension in the focussing; again, this is down to variations in different batches of the same model.</p></blockquote><p></p>