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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brocknroller" data-source="post: 1868028" data-attributes="member: 665">Not Steve (mooreorless), he traded in his old 7x30 SLC on a Neu 8x30 SLC after only 20 years of use. Can you imagine that??? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> In his defense, I think if the 7x30s had phase coating and WPing, he probably would have kept it another 10 years. In some ways, I liked the old 7x30 better than his Neu 8x30 SLC. Better DOF, better depth of focus, better ergonomics. But... not as good edges or contrast or color depth. Updated coatings made a big difference on the 8x30, but I wish that Swaro would bring back the 7x30 model with all that jazz (except the "fast" focuser). But apparently 7x is no longer fashionable. After hearing all these problems on the new SV ELs, including these issues commented on in the first review of the 10x42 SV EL on Eagle Optics....<a href="http://www.eagleoptics.com/binoculars/swarovski/swarovski-el-10x42-swarovision-binocular?tab=customer_reviews#tabs" target="_blank">http://www.eagleoptics.com/binoculars/swarovski/swarovski-el-10x42-swarovision-binocular?tab=customer_reviews#tabs</a>...I'm beginning to think that 130 quality assurance checks are apparently not enough. Can the SV EL be so complex that such problems can still be missed? Particularly, with adherence to ISO 9000 manufacturing standards! I blame it on those German girls with the eye glitter that have been a bad influence on the Austrian assembly line girls. All that glitter is probably messing up the machining. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />After all the delays, I wondered if there was a "rush to market" involved here or perhaps just a case of "working out the bugs" on the new models. It's not like Swaro is cranking them out by the thousands like Toyota or GM, but I have noticed that across the board, no matter what new product line you look at, be it cars, optics, or spacecraft, when a new model is released, bugs surface after use "in the field" (or on Mars, in the case of the Mars Polar Lander <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. Look at the reviews in Car & Driver. They drive a car 10,000 miles and everything usually works fine. 10,001 miles and things can sometimes start falling apart (literally, in some cases). Unless Swaro testers get down on their bellies and crawl through the mud and brush, stalking deer on a mountain ridge in the dead of winter, there's bound to be some "uh ohs" when the bins actually get used in the field.  I'm expecting the next production run of SV ELs to have some of those bugs worked out. As far as the owners complaining, even though it might be unrealistic to expect perfection in a Swaro (or any bin, for that matter), after they forked over $2,400 on an SV EL, I think they have the right to gripe and be heard.</blockquote>

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