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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alexis Powell" data-source="post: 3665499" data-attributes="member: 5327">In my considerable experience with the FL, it is a tricky glass. In casual/sloppy use, tossed to the eyes, the view with respect to resolution is easily bested by other binoculars. When used very carefully, with one's eyes perfectly aligned with the centers of its oculars, I've not found its equal in the center of the view, owing to low chromatic aberration. Unfortunately, when one's eyes are not perfectly aligned to the FL oculars, it exhibits a lot of astigmatic degradation of the view. Other bins are more forgiving. Even when used perfectly, the 8x32 FL and other FL bins exhibit more astigmatism off-axis than some other bins, which undermines the quality of their admirably flat field.--AP</blockquote>