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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ksbird/foxranch" data-source="post: 1302085" data-attributes="member: 37413">In an effort to reduce large portions of my post being ignored to take what I say out of context here is what I am saying:Assuming that the objective lenses, eyepieces, internal reflection reduction and air-glass surface multicoatings are the same, roof prisms can NEVER produce an image as clear and sharp as porros that are assembled equally as well, no matter how many layers of s and p phase correction coatings are used on a roofer to partially reduce the "softening" of the image caused by the out-of-phase-light phenomena (because s and p out-of-phase light softening in a roof prism design can NEVER be fully eliminated, it can only be approximately reduced, no matter how expensive the roof prism binocular is).Other people posting to this forum have commented that Swarovski has NOT updated the multicoatings on their Habicht models to be the equal of their current roofers.If anyone wants the best images possible in an 8x or 10xx binocular, the Nikon SE porros and the Fuji FMTseries porros seem to be rated #1 by all the experts, and the impossibility of being able to reduce ALL the softening effects caused by roof prism s and p phase distortion is likely why. I fail to understand why anyone would ignore the important portions of a post to take things out of context so grossly, unless it is because they don't understand what phenomena is being described.</blockquote>

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