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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CliveP" data-source="post: 3324366" data-attributes="member: 85835">Got a quick look outside today along by the river and flood plains.Low sun, eyes streaming with the cold and wind but pretty bright and clear morning.I give these HD the thumbs up basically.There's no getting away from the fact that they are a tiny binocular but I was surprised that I actually found them good to use with my winter gloves. The actual glove padding helped to pad out the bins and I was even able to use the focus wheel without any problem at all. I am used to the far end focuser and like it in small bins such as these. I also prefer the basic diopter around the right barrel to all those fiddly little center nobs of other models.It took me a little time to get them set and see how best to use them but after that I settled in with them very well and what stood out to me was how it seemed almost more relaxing to use them for distance viewing and the resolution is really impressive and a nice size view. Got some glare looking in the sun direction but none otherwise.I need to get out again for another try with them but this was good enough for me now to answer my initial curiosity that being would they work at all and I'm very glad to say they do and leave me wanting to explore their ability more.I even found the eyerelief outdoors to be spot on so very well pleased.They wouldn't replace my 8x32 but they certainly are a great compact. Quite expensive but with a 10 year warranty I'd say they are actually good value. The best compact I have encountered in many years and I do think I prefer them to the Nikon HGL I had a few years back and all the compacts I have owned and tried in between. Not by any massive margin but these just seem to suit me best and no doubt about the ability of the optics. I never felt that they lacked any power or that 10x would be better. These are amazing over distance. Totally crisp and clear.</blockquote>

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