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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ronh" data-source="post: 2170490" data-attributes="member: 55514">James,You took my kidding very nicely. I recognize this kind of thing because I have experienced it many times myself. I have engaged in argument over the leaded/unleaded glass question, and come down on the "makes no difference side". But that was based on numbers that I looked up in glass charts, not an actual comparison of binoculars.This is just one of many cases where trying to apply science to instruments that we are unsure quite what is inside of, and whose performance is judged by the most fickle and  untrustworthy of detectors, can fail. I enjoy and honor the folk art side of our pursuit, riddled with superstition, anecdote, and spurious observation. I am quite certain, for example, that the Trinovid is the toughest binocular ever built. Also, my bad case of CA sensitivity seems to be clearing up. It sometimes seems that the stronger I feel about some issue regarding binoculars, the more likely I will be to flip and flop about it in the future. I frequently contradict earlier statements, and in all honesty. Etc, etc.I hope you can ascertain that your SE is leaded glass. But the only for sure test I know of, would be to get Brock to look through it!Ron</blockquote>