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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bluespiderweb" data-source="post: 3638391" data-attributes="member: 114337">No, it's not the bins, it's meI THINK this problem was due to my fatigues eyes, and not my comparison of roofs to Porros, so let's let this go for now.  I did find the more I used the Sightron BSII 10x32s, the more comfortable they were for me.  I've checked since, comparing them to other bins I have, and I did not get that weird feeling that I had at first, with the BSII's.  I think that the diopter was not adjusted to the optimum for my eyes, and why I felt the eyestrain in the first place.  I have not experienced it again, so it should probably condsidered an error in observation from me, even if my left eye continues to be the weakest link in the chain.  That is easy enough to assign to the weakest link, but try to remember it is an individual effort here that matters most to the overall good of the many.I do not know why the live views have been sub par, though if I spend time with them and a leaning to better focusing, that usually solves things more quickly, for sure.  Though sometimes there are other factors that take charge more immediately, of course, in reality, than is hard to use so well at the moment in explanation.  May be just settings of the diopter and such that keep things changing and not so clear to us for the making, or our eyes and their variable nature even to our own, let alone comparing them to others.</blockquote>