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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cluster" data-source="post: 3154172" data-attributes="member: 105217">My two M7 8x30 units arrived today, in time for a walk in the woodlands for the last hour of reasonable light.  My wife and I tried them out in the snow covered countryside as the sun set, not really the conditions that they would be used normally. I found it to flare when the sun was in front of me, but no more than I might expect. As the light became poorer, I did see a crescent (almost kidney-bean) shaped white area in the lower left of the vision in my left eye. I saw this several times, each time I had to carefully reposition my eye on the exit pupil. I believe that this was my pupil straying outside the exit pupil and picking up some of the significant leakage seen outside of the exit pupil.  I guess (and will check when I can) that in the lower light, my pupil had expanded, making alignment between my eyes and the exit pupil critical.  Perhaps, with a little more use, correct eye placement will become second nature and that in the good light I had intended to use these, this won't be an issue.</blockquote>