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Message: <blockquote data-quote="henry link" data-source="post: 265267" data-attributes="member: 6806">Carlos,It sounds like you already know something about the illusion of higher magnification in roof (or reverse porro) compared to traditional porro. It results from the closer spacing of the objectives and is most pronounced at short distances. The difference in the angles of the triangle made by the objectives and the object being observed fools the brain into believing that the object in the roof prism bin is farther away and therefore absolutely larger. Close one eye and it goes away. Your objection to the images separating at close distances in the SE also results from it's wider objective spacing. The only thing you can do about that is to narrow the interpupilary distance a bit when you are looking at something close up.Are you aware that there is new lighter version of the HG, the HG L, and that a new Leica 8X32 Ultravid has just come out, and that a new Zeiss 8X32 FL is due out in January? If you can, I would wait to see those before making a decision.Henry</blockquote>