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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John M Robinson" data-source="post: 3524190" data-attributes="member: 61814">I'm convinced some of us just naturally prefer one of the alpha views over the others. When I bought my 8x42 Ultravid BRs about eight years ago, it came down to the Swarovski 8.5x42 EL and the Ultravids. The store let me take both home for the weekend, I really wanted to like the Swaros better, all my buddies had EL or SLCs, but my eye kept coming back to the Leicas. Truth is I would have been happy with either bin, but come Monday I took the Swaros back and kept the Leicas. Since then I have tried lots of nice binos, Zeiss, all Swaro models, Leica, Zen Ray, Nikon (I own 8x32 and 10x42 SEs), and a bunch of others, maybe now my eyes are trained, but regardless I always seem to prefer the Leica view. I don't have anything against any other company, my eyes just like what they like.</blockquote>