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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Russell" data-source="post: 1776758" data-attributes="member: 22179">I spoke to my dealer on the 'phone the other day (he had just sold my Zeiss Conquest on commission) and asked him about the new DiaScopes. He said that despite retaining the focal lengths of the old Diascopes, they had been optically redesigned and were now the market leaders.As far as I am concerned, the bomb is now ticking but I will wait a few months for any teething troubles to be sorted out and then do an extensive comparison with the Swaro ATMs before taking the plunge.Personally, I regret the lack of a WA option below 30x/40x. The latter is much too high for general use, although with the Diascopes one does have the possibility of using astro eyepieces.John</blockquote>