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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HJC1972" data-source="post: 3258541" data-attributes="member: 118663">Thanks for taking the time to answer. Ok, I've discounted the zoom, despite the reviews on Amazon UK, which suggest that the hundred people or so who have bought them, who seem mostly delighted with them. Now I know there is a pay-off in depth of field, even if they're kept on x8 that has made my mind up to avoid them.However, to compound my paralysis, I've just come across another maker who seem quite respected who are making a waterproof pair within the same price point. They're roof prism as opposed to Porro. Better, worse, indifferent?. Incidentally, the olympus one aren't waterproof Phil. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Barr-Stroud-8X42-Sahara-Binoculars/dp/B0010ZSUD8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1438547793&sr=8-1&keywords=Barr+and+Stroud" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Barr-Stroud-8X42-Sahara-Binoculars/dp/B0010ZSUD8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1438547793&sr=8-1&keywords=Barr+and+Stroud</a>Decision decisions</blockquote>