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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pete_gamby" data-source="post: 3282874" data-attributes="member: 76050">Lars - Chris will be at the event at Getteröbutiken on Sunday and he's taking our ES80 ED, HR66 ED and HR80 ED scopes with him. It would be great to hear your comments on those if you do get a chance to try them out.The lack of new 65mm or 80mm class scopes at the second tier level is, in my opinion, due simply to a massive slow down in sales over the past three years or so. For some brands that has meant just giving up on the business, for others a move down in price and a reliance on "off the shelf" designs from, typically, China-based suppliers.For Opticron it has meant a pause in product development. We've talked with our manufacturing partners about updates and improvements to the current line rather than developing an entirely new platform because in the current situation we cannot justify the $50,000+ investment required. There's not much we can do to the ES or HR lines without a complete redesign to allow the use of an eyepiece with a larger field lens in order that we could deliver a wide angle 2x zoom.The travel scope business remains buoyant though and we're continuing to invest in and develop the MM series.Things are definitely improving though so perhaps next year we can consider something new.HTHCheers, Pete</blockquote>