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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GLOBETROTTER" data-source="post: 3155413" data-attributes="member: 130396">Mmmmmm...........Lets talk about optics in order to help those people that are thinking to buy or to check the SF........More findings with my SF 8X42.Well, what can i say now after more days playing with it is that color reproduction is Very neutral, when i say neutral i mean NEUTRAL. Almost perfect.Don't expect same color cast like on HT or older Zeiss, true colors with no over boosted ones.Is very well know that eye_ brain combination use to like what is use to see,which is accustomed so when i change from my SV or my Ultravid agains SF i found some issues with SF like washed colors, less contrast etc etc.So keeping apart leicas due to his strong and oversaturated colors i focus my attention on Sarovision vs SF.After hours and hours looking with them and them move closer to the subjects to see it in direct view ,naked eye 8 times closer.......what can i say is that on SF everything looks absolutely natural, real life, if a black is not absolutely black its not blacker thru SF, same can be say about other colors except for red ones.No surprise here the SF have a strong red pink coatings so are designed for terrestrial views who has contain more blues and greens than reds, so in the country side is perfect.Another thing........i would like to be very clear, is brighter !!!!!! for sure, but you notice via small margin late evening looking shadows and not affecting during daytime because birds agains  bright clouds still birds not flying shadows with no info at all, the interior or this binocular in painted with a very very dark coating, nothing shines like on Leicas or swaros.And for Sharpness, here the bad or good news, don't expect stellar resolution like leicas or swaros, the view is more subtle very real like, where to notice this......easy looking at distant letters, traffic signals etc the letters are not as sharp like the other two, you can read it but they are not so defined like on swaros and leicas.This is a very honest review, i have the other bios and the SF as well so i don't have any special preference.I hope this is gonna help to future users and of course we will see what good reviewers say in the future.Cheers.</blockquote>

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