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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PeterPS" data-source="post: 3383238" data-attributes="member: 124043">SD:What's in the SV 8.5 image that's not to your liking? (if everything was "perfect" you wouldn't bother to buy and compare several bins). Maybe you're super-sensitive to CA. I too am sensitive to CA and I see it in the SV and any other bins I have tried, once you move off the axis sometimes even as little as 40-50%. I see it in the SF as well, but it's not serious nor is it in the SV. I have owned an SV 8.5 but it felt much heavier than the SF (on paper it is heavier by only 60-70g, but in the hand the weight difference felt larger). To me the extra weight and different weight distribution of the SV meant extra muscle tremble.  Some people claim that heavier bins are easier to hold steady. Heavy bins will damp the higher frequencies of the muscle tremble, simply due their higher inertia, but their weight will eventually lead to larger lower-frequency amplitudes, and those frequencies up to 10 Hz cause resolution loss. Besides weight, the other factor that has made me prefer the SF to the SV was FoV---the SV's AFoV seems even smaller than its actual value due to the decrease in the magnification at the edge. Peter</blockquote>