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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ronh" data-source="post: 3453557" data-attributes="member: 55514">Omid,You seem to searching for things about the magnified view that don't line up with naked eye.  I'd like to share one of the few tiny tidbits that I understand in this department: the distorting effect of magnification on perspective.  I'll explain by an example.Imagine two objects, 100 and 1000 yards from the viewer.  At 10x magnification, they will appear to be 10 and 100 yards away, respectively, or, separated by 90 yards.But, if you simply walked 90 yards closer and viewed them by naked eye, they would appear at their true distances, which would then be 10 and 910 yards away.So, in that sense, magnification is not equivalent to being closer.  Magnification could be said to compress or weaken perspective.Now the wacky part.  I am of the opinion that the artificially enhanced 3D effect of a big Porro like a marine 7x50 gives back some of the perspective robbed by magnification, resulting in a, frankly, doubly screwed up, but altogether "more natural" view. Ha!Ron</blockquote>