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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CliveP" data-source="post: 3259877" data-attributes="member: 85835">Oh WOW!!!Now that's more um..um..um.....?????Absolutely Brilliant!!! A+*****My Kowa 8x32 SV does look a bit of a tart and I suppose your design is just like one Chinese design ripping off another, again. Wonder which Opticron is the Kowa SV equivalent made in the same factory?I could do without the red bit on the Kowa but I neither loath nor like it, probably do like it as a bit of an oddity but I do like the curves as far as holding them. That does work well. It really is a cracking little bin.Was out with it again last evening and again I really thought it was great. Strange thing I noticed though was that if I use it with he eyecups folded right down then it somehow looses a lot of contrast but probably accurately reflects the scene but it isn't comfortable that way anyhow due to the eye relief in that it brings my non-glass wearing eyes a bit to close to the oculars.Then if I use the first click stop, bam, it's as if the prisms had some extra reflective coating added and the contrast goes right up so this may not be possible for people wearing glasses to get this effect. I've never noticed such a difference in other bins at least not to such an extent.</blockquote>