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Message: <blockquote data-quote="elkcub" data-source="post: 1343989" data-attributes="member: 14473">Hi Kimmo,I would add that the size of the current SE and EII eyecups has already pushed the facial anthropometry limits of the population.  This is partly due to the diameter of the eyecups, and partly due to the nose room remaining after the IPD is set.  Substituting a rigid retractable eyecup would greatly exacerbate the problem in my opinion.  Those who wear eyeglasses are  less effected by the current problem, but they would also benefit least from a new design.  It always seemed to me that a narrower rubber eyecup would be fairly easy to design and retrofit.  Ed</blockquote>