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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brocknroller" data-source="post: 3279685" data-attributes="member: 665">I agree with all Ted said about Steve's review. I was (and still am) very pressed for time this week, but I did take a snack break and read both parts of the review and found them well written and "fair and balanced," and I was quite surprised about the RB in the 10x50 since Steve didn't see it in 10x42 model, which, according to Holger's distortion chart, is much further into the RB zone than the 10x50, and he didn't see it in the second 8.5x sample he tried. He almost had me convinced that Swaro had "cured" or at least ameliorated the RB effect in the SV ELs, as Holger suggested from his conversation with a Swaro rep. What was also of interest is that Steve didn't see the RB right away, but like Dennis's first encounter with RB, it crept up on him until it became intolerable. The usual MO is that users see it immediately but most end up adjusting to it over time. So more use, means more tolerance. In his case, and a few others, the opposite was true, the more exposure to the SV ELs, the more the RB became noticeable. Instead of building up a tolerance, he became more sensitized to it. My own opinion is that he actually lucked out by being sensitive to RB, and I think he implied this himself in his OP, since he would have paid nearly three times as much for the 10x50 SV EL as he did for his Maven B2. As I've said before, I think the real innovation in binoculars today is happening at the second tier, because manufacturers are learning how to make high quality "glass" at prices that won't require taking out a second mortgage. It's a trend I'd like to see continue even after the world economy pulls out of its malaise. Brock</blockquote>

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