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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CliveP" data-source="post: 3323124" data-attributes="member: 85835">Great news!Thanks again to Niki. Got the replacement and it is indeed probably the most perfect twin hinge bin I've ever encountered. Both hinges pretty tight, eyecup click stops perfect on both, focuser pretty smooth but more importantly accurate and gets the sharpness out of the lenses.Sadly I don't have another high end compact to compare this to as I think that would be the only real competition.It's another dull winter day so I haven't really had a chance to see through it in full daylight and it isn't quite as bright as my 8x25 Vistron or the 6.5x21 Papilio as would be expected with their larger exit pupils but it is still bright and does have very good contrast so even in low light things are still discernable.I need to have a trip out with it to see how it fares. I see it seems to show no glare at all, yes that's none whatsoever, which is brilliant after my Hawke Frontier 8x25. It means I seem to be getting the full 119m fov right to the edge and it's quite remarkable although it does seem to have a lot of eye relief and perhaps the eyecups would have been better to extend a bit further but that will be good news for wearers of glasses looking for a good compact.I do have a feeling though that I am going to like this little bin a lot and I like it already. It looks great and just seems to work that bit better for me than the Hawke Sapphire 8x25 which I tried and returned and the optics seem more impressive also so I'm expecting to be pretty pleased when I do get to take it out for a try, of course I'm not expecting it to work as a full size bin but I'm hoping that it will impress for what it is and I'm sure it will, just a question of how much but no glare and the great sharpness & clarity is certainly a good start.I'll give a bit more info later after a day out as there doesn't really seem to be anything much info wise about these online and I certainly think they should get some mention and credit.I love all my compacts now. This, the Papilio and the Vistron. (The Bresser doesn't count.) Currently I think they are all kind of tied for first place but the HD obviously folds so is most compact and is waterproof and has a bigger view than the Papilio but the optics in my Papilio II are still mind boggling and then the Vistron is just like a small but proper binocular that you can just jam up against your eyes although with the least best optics and yet I still think it's great. Anyhow those are some initial thoughts and I hope to have some more good things to say about the HD soon. I'm definitely keeping it, that's pretty certain.</blockquote>

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