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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Canip" data-source="post: 3478462" data-attributes="member: 132795">Thank you for this clear and concise review, Gijs (post 51). I am looking forward to testing a Noctivid against HT, EL SV, SF, HD Plus and SLC shortly, so I appreciate your remarks (looking at your previous tests of other models, my own reviews very often come to similar results as yours).And thank you, Jan, for post 59.You know what this all reminds me of ?Remember the time when the SF was introduced ?At the time, Zeiss marketing had put the SF up into the binocular Mount Olympus - the best of the best of the best, nothing could be even close. So expectations were extremely high, mine included.Then I got one (SF 8x42). After 2 months, I had to send it in for service, since the focus wheel had developed significant amounts of play. Zeiss exchanged the focus mechanism (since then, my SF works fine), and it seems they reintroduced the SF model with a modified focus mechanism shortly thereafter.If expectations are too high, later disappointments are inevitable. Has Leica fallen into te same trap this time with the Noctivid ?And if companies don't take the time to test and test and retest and then only bring products to the market, things like the ones mentioned in post 59 happen. So far, Leica seemed beyond that, they were the one premium manufacturer that was not affected by technical flaws like Zeiss or Swarovki (I had to send in several binos to both of them for service or replacement of faulty parts, but never to Leica),  their mechanical quality was beyond doubt. So what is happening here ?</blockquote>

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