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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tom Bombadil" data-source="post: 3193443" data-attributes="member: 33331">No, I haven't tried an EII.  Have never had my hands on one.  However my experience, with several binoculars, has been that if they don't have a full 74mm IPD, then it is a very frustrating experience for me to try to use them.  One where I have to extend them to maximum, position my eyes perfectly, and then I am constantly slightly shifting them left and right, as I can see the edge of the field in either one or both eyes.  In the case of binos with large exit pupils, say 6mm, I can make do.  As the EII has 3.75mm exit pupils, there is a very good chance it would be maddening.</blockquote>