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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Six Point Five" data-source="post: 3197518" data-attributes="member: 125978">I just came back inside after comparing the two. We have a lot of moisture and mist in the air, and a thin layer of clouds is diffusing a very bright sun, just about to set behind a hill. I looked at all angles possible in relation to the sun, as close as possible to the sun without burning my eyes. I use binoculars without eyeglasses. The eyecups on the SV are fully extended, the ones on the FL are one stop short from fully extended. I saw no veiling glare in the FL. With the sun behind me and to my side, i had a small bright spot of reflection in the ocular lens. I quickly blocked that with the base of my thumb or palm. I saw veiling glare with the SV when looking just under the edge of the bright diffused sun. Literally, the sun's edge was at the edge of my FOV. The glare was exactly as described,  very thin crescent shape at the base of the FOV. Very quickly and easily i made that disappear in a second or two, by pushing the eyepieces closer to my eyes, perhaps a little more to one side than the other. I seem to have reacted instantly, because i had to experiment several times to see what is happening and what i am doing. And i did have to shift and turn quit a bit to find the glare again, it was not easy to find and see.    Both binoculars had a perfectly good sharp image with good contrast, even when looking just under the sun. I could see very well small details in places and at angles where most binoculars would have failed.</blockquote>

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