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Message: <blockquote data-quote="james holdsworth" data-source="post: 2316117" data-attributes="member: 79864">For me, there is only one primary need for a bin. to deliver to be worthy, they must give outstanding views of birds.I may spend the better part of a day in the field looking at rocks and roofs for CA, or reading signs and testing the size of the sweet spot or edge performance, or trying to invoke glare or flare from some absurdly backlit situation.There are times, during these ''inspections'', that I may find some apsects of the bin lacking. Then, I start looking at birds again and [in the case of my FL] they just look gorgeous, perfect, accurate. You can push a bin to perform in many non real world situations, while ignoring the simple fact that these are birding glasses and they must perform [for me] as such.That's why I still sing the praises of my FL, as [sure] it doesn't have the edges of the EDG or SV, but the view of a bird is so pristine, so elegant and so satisfying, I do not feel the need to look for something else.</blockquote>