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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PeterPS" data-source="post: 3345220" data-attributes="member: 124043">I have recently bought a Trinovid HD 10x42 (I am curious, and also weak...). I own Zeiss, Swaro and Nikon bins but no Leica, the main reason being that the UVs cannot be used w/o glasses by people with myopic eyes like me. The new Trinovid HD has a reasonable travel past infinity even for nearsighted people, which in my eyes it's one of its main pluses (and likely also a main reason why Leica moved the diopter compensation ring).The optics are good to very good at this price point (except for glare control, see below): the Trinovid HD is quite sharp, has a large sweet spot (about 75%), and CA is well controlled (in the center, but rather visible at the edge) ; I would say that optically it is slightly better than the old Trinovid, and than a few other bins in this price range such as the Razor 10x42 (however the latter has a larger FoV, and for some reason the FoV of the Trinovid HD seemed to me to be even smaller than in the specs).Will I keep it? I do not think so: rather poor glare control (for me the deal breaker), build quality leaving something to be desired (one eyecup of my unit had 5 stops, but the other only 3 stops; the rubber armor is somewhat sticky and thus a magnet for lint and dust), the mechanics could have been better (stiff and slow focus wheel, but loose hinge and diopter ring), and it is not that light at 760g (according to the booklet that comes with it; 30-40g more than in the initial specs).</blockquote>

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