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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stephen b" data-source="post: 3283047" data-attributes="member: 80110">FWIW:Straight from Swarovski tech:Came out and said they deliberately tried to reduce price to distance previous SLC HD from the SV. That was the purpose. They only changed ( besides the Armor) the close focus distance. Which he said is a significant reduction in build cost. Other than that optics are the same. He did not know anything about focus speed change. But with a change in close focus distance, that may have changed the focus speed a bit- even if not intentional.Also said that in the center field that the optics of the SV and the SLC's ( both current and predecessor ) are basically the same. Only difference is field flatner. Went on to say that the SLC was probably best value that they make considering it has same optic glass as the SV- just no FF.This is the same info told to me from a couple respected optic reps from Eagle Optics. Also correlates well with what most people that have seen these optics have noted.</blockquote>