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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fugl" data-source="post: 1356791" data-attributes="member: 816"><p>You miss the point.  We're not talking about company-wide "financial problems" here (though Leica has had its share of these in the recent past), but of minor cost cutting with a view to making a particular product line slightly more competitive by eliminating expensive anachronisms.  Who wants a fancy leather pouch nowadays? (If I owned one for my--alpha, as it happens--binoculars I'd probably be reluctant to use it for fear of damaging the beautiful thing.)  The fact is that, in spite of what your "philosopher" friend has to say on the subject, for many birders alpha binoculars are tools, not status symbols, and a practical modern material like cordura for the case does just fine.  That's certainly how I feel about my binoculars..</p></blockquote><p></p>