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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brocknroller" data-source="post: 1484606" data-attributes="member: 665">Jiri, Steve can only write in English "mooreorless" too. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Don't worry, your English is understandable. Steve, if I'm not mistaken your 10x42 SE serial # is 000001? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Ed, I can't even read the serial # on the 12x50 SE, and you expect me to see the word "Premier" on this photo? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />: <a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41N9gjwUXrL._SL500_AA280_.jpg" target="_blank">http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41N9gjwUXrL._SL500_AA280_.jpg</a>I haven't seen that change. The 10x42 LX L that I had for 60 seconds weren't labeled "Premier".My hope is that Myron at Nikon passed along my comments on how the LX L's optics were inferior to the original LX to Nikon's design team, and that the "Premier LX" optical engineers (Clyde Crashcup and his assistant Leonardo) went back to the drawing board and redesigned the "Premier" model with a better lead substitute and coatings than the non-Premier LX L model so that contrast isn't sacrificed for brightness, and better yet, if they FINALLY added some pincushion to the full sized LX's like they did to the mid-sized models. If that's what the full sized "Premier" LX is like, I will buy a 10x42 model (I already bought a 10x42 LX and a 10x42 LX L, but returned the former and sold the latter).The resolution, contrast, and color saturation in the 10x42 Venturer LX were superior to any other 10x bin I've tried, but the images kept on "rollin', rollin', rollin' on a [barrel]." The 10x42 LX sample I bought off eBay had unevenly applied coatings (some layers of coatings were left off one side), and at 36 oz., they felt like an albatross around my neck. If Nikon had kept the optics the same on the LX L model and only changed the weight of the bin, I might have learned to live with the "barrel of fun(house) images" as a trade off for the otherwise excellent optics.Here's an 8x32 SE on eBay that was bought in 2001, and it has a 503xxx serial # like Jiri's 2008 model: <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/2001-Nikon-Superior-E-8x32-Binoculars-8x32SE-CF_W0QQitemZ300310830324QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45ebeb9cf4&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.com/2001-Nikon-Superior-E-8x32-Binoculars-8x32SE-CF_W0QQitemZ300310830324QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45ebeb9cf4&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50</a>Brock</blockquote>

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