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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BruceH" data-source="post: 3616284" data-attributes="member: 106398">Upland ..... First, thank you for the kind comment about my GPO 8X42 ED posting.  On the one hand it was good to hear the 8X32 GO ED is also a good binocular but then it is to bad it also comes with an eye cup to short for some of us.  Hopefully Mike J. can come up with a future solution.    I have to hold my GPO a little higher to the brow than I would normally like but it does work out for me.  The GPO has been holding up well and I still think highly of it.  Leica has received similar comments on the new Noctivid and has some sort of eye cup fix.  Best I can tell it is not a replacement of the entire eye cup, but a part of it.  I have yet to see one.  This is not an issue unique to GPO.  As you mentioned Zeiss had some issues with the Conquest but addressed it with an optional replacement eye cup.  Zen-Ray runs on the short side for me with some of their models.  The newer Bushnell Legend M addresses the Zen-Ray ED3 issue to some extent.  Swaro overall works best for me when it comes to easy eye placement.  I suspect they put a lot of thought into that aspect of the design.  I assume the Zeiss Conquest you mentioned is the Zeiss Conquest HD 8X32?  If so, then it does have ED glass.  I do not think that was the case with the prior Conquest generation.  I went to confirm the ED glass status on the Zeiss website and all that it says is the Conqust HD has the Zeiss HD Lens System but unfortunately the site does not offer any description of what makes up the HD Lens Systems and unlike the description of the lower end Schott ED glass equipped Terra, it does not state that the Conquest HD has ED glass.  This motivated me to call Zeiss because I was sure that I remembered learning it had ED glass when it was first introduced.  The Zeiss rep found some internal documentation that stated the Conquest HD had the HD lens system "with ED glass".  Why Zeiss does not publicly state that on the web site and other public product information is beyond me.  It sure makes things hard and confusing for the buyer.  I am not sure why you were getting a flat view, which I assume to mean dull rather than sharp to the edges.  Was the Leupold in you list the 8X32 Leupold BX-3 Mojave?I go along with WDC and think that one Opticron model which might work is the new Opticron 8X32 Traveller BGA ED.  It looks a lot like the Leupold BX-3 Mojave and the clone Cabeia's Guide 8X32.  I have the Guide and it fits fairly well and its an excellent overall binocular.  The Luepold/Guide version does not have ED glass but the new Traveller does.  That may resolve the CA issue you observed in the Luepold, assuming it was the BX-3 Mojave. From my recent reseach of the Opticron IMagic, the B in BGA means it works well for eye glass wearers and the GA mean rubber armor.  I assume ED is for ED glass.  Good luck with the search and please let us know how the GPO ultilmately works out for you.</blockquote>

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