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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dean L" data-source="post: 1730054" data-attributes="member: 83386">Hmmmm, all this talk of CA with respect to the 12X50 SEs has me nervous.  Why?  Because I have a new pair on order from Amazon, and I loathe CA!  I have a pair of 8X32 SEs, and find them to be acceptable, but I wouldn't want to put up with significantly more.  I live on a small man made lake in Arizona and use my bins mostly for observing water fowl on the lake, so I am viewing in high contrast situations a great deal of the time.  I ordered the 12X to get a little more reach as so many of the birds are often 200 yds. or more distant.  However, if I'm going to be looking at red and/or green outlined birds, I'd rather pass.  Can anyone give me a better sense of how much CA the 12X SEs are going to exhibit, perhaps in relation to some other well known models?  Is noticeable CA going to be a fact of life in any of the 12X or higher powered binos currently available?Thanks for your thoughts.Dean</blockquote>