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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 3178338" data-attributes="member: 56622">I don't disagree totally with your post.  However I would tend to think differently if I had ever quizzed anybody in field, use encounters that had even a remote idea of what CA was.  I'm still looking for my first CA aware non binocular nut.  I don't think that CA sensitive types can have a proper viewpoint on what it is like to not see it, save crappy optics and severe conditions where guys like me can maybe get it to show itself. Personally, I like the leafy looking $100 camo.  Throw in gray ocular rings, gray main focus wheel, and green focus wheel borders with green objective rings.  My second choice sounds a lot like yours.AP posted earlier about the importance of CA, whether you see it or not.  So did you, so did Jerry, so did Arthur, so probably there will be others.  I have always thought it was a step less my brain needed to go through to eliminate the sight.  I'm not sure you CA sensitive guys have the ability to grasp what a non CA sensitive view is.  If I don't see it and you do and we both oohh and aaahhh over the view in a terrific binocular neither of us see CA in, is the image brighter/better for me?  Is it worse for you?  Does it matter?  How do I see the image as degraded when it clearly is not?I keep getting to the point where I feel obligated to state my CA insensitivity.I understand CA exists.  I understand it can be photographed.  I can see it in photos, but not in the actual view through the glass.  When I do get it to pop up, trust me, I can see where it is a MAJOR problem if you do see it.  I understand I don't normally see it.  A lot of people don't understand that.Anyway, enough of CA.</blockquote>

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