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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 1290538" data-attributes="member: 56622">Frank,I really didn't intend to start a fov hijack on the thread.  Even a center field resolution, sweet spot sort of binocular viewer like me does indeed notice an AFOV difference at some point.  I just tend to scratch my head and go ?????????????? when somebody tells me they can tell a difference in the view between a couple of degrees afov and a fov difference of less than 20'. Again, since I can't, that doesn't mean you (or Owen, or anybody else) can't or doesn't.  I'm not telling anybody they don't see what they see. This is just one of the things I had in my head for the post on the blind binocular test.  Again we all like what we like and maybe sometimes we don't even know why we either like it or dislike it.  A multitude of stuff has to come together with the viewer's eyes for a binocular to be really good.I will also readily admit that there is a very strong possibility, even certainty, that one of the reasons the Promaster  ELX appeals to me so much is in fact due to the afov, among its other attributes.  Hey, give me a month with that Promaster, and maybe I'll be embarassed even to look back at my last few posts in this thread.  Now that I think about it, after I've had the Promaster for awhile, I'm going to have to get my hands on a Razor or Meostar to see if the  field difference has become something I notice.</blockquote>