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Message: <blockquote data-quote="typo" data-source="post: 3508653" data-attributes="member: 83808">Some interesting comments. It's a model I've had a look at every now and again since its launch. Your observations are very reminiscent of mine at the UK launch. It does not have the field of curvature of traditional designs, but has some flatenning element to widen the view. Unfortunately it seemed to be very poorly executed in those first samples with a band of afocal softness just outside the sweetspot and a wave of magnification distortion beyond that. Some on the stand found it more acceptable than I did. Some months later I tried them again and it was much improved, with only mildly fluctuating distortion which I suspect few would notice in practice. Not my cup of tea, but most seem quite happy. It would be a concern if the old problem has returned. I don't believe Nikon have any binocular manufacturing facilities in China, just a procurement office, but they would definitely specify the resolution standard for the Monarchs 7. It would, at the very least, be no worse than the ISO 14133-2 standard used by all the other major brands. I haven't spotted any significant deficiencies in centre resolution in the samples I've seen but it's probably 18 months since I last had a look. Did you actually measure the resolution or use any sort of reference target? It's quite likely that both the Canon and Nikon would actually be eyesight limited.DavidP.S. In spite of my comments above I actually prefer the more recent Monarch samples I've seen to the Terra on all-round performance.</blockquote>

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