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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Bean" data-source="post: 2169848" data-attributes="member: 64331">Ron, your Leica must weigh a ton then (!) just like my Nikon 8x42HG which I love dearly. There is something satisfying about the heft of it, as with my old Zeiss Octarem, built to last a thousand years. All purely psychological, but if IT feels good, I feel good too.I hope you don't think I've been misled (pun intended) by the attributes of lead glass, it is just that for many years I was led (sorry) to believe lead glass was superior, so when the politically correct brigade removed lead from lenses (and mercury from batteries) I was disinclined to believe that any substitute would perform as well, never mind better.Thus, given the choice, I'd rather have lead in my optics than not. As to querying when my 12x50SE was made, it wasn't so much a leading (!) question, more idle curiosity...</blockquote>