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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 1290132" data-attributes="member: 56622">Ron and Henry,Thanks for the technical information.  Whatever else you can post about the Promaster I will welcome.  While a lot of it is beyond me, I do learn from it all and for that you guys have my thanks.Marcus and Ron,I am glad you are liking the Promaster.  I'm not quite sure what my reaction would have been if both you and Ron would have said AAAAGGGHHH!!! these things stink.Tero,I agree with you about FOV.  I can certainly not tell the difference between 393' and 411', especially since that is 39 vs 41 feet at 100 yards.Frank and Owen,As noted I tend to agree with Tero on the fov.  However, far be it from me to quibble over someone's preference in binoculars.  We like what we like.  Actually this is the sort of optical difference testing that was part of my objective in the blind binocular test post.  Here I would really like to see if you guys are really statisically better than the coin flip spread in ability to actually pick up on fov levels of less than 20' at 1000 yars.  Just because I'm not doesn't mean you can't.  Is it real or do we think we see what the spec sheets say? We could do this both before and after hypnotherapy.</blockquote>