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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrankD" data-source="post: 1269895" data-attributes="member: 18544">I am a huge fan of the Meostar series. I am greatly looking forward to the 8x32s when they hit the market (a little birdie told me the first shipment just arrived in the US). I think their view is probably the closest thing you can buy to the big 4 without paying the $1000 (now $2000+ in the case of the Ultravid HD and Swaro EL IIs) prices. Their field of view, color representation, flatness of image, brightness levels and apparent sharpness are all excellent. I think if it weren't for one issue they would be the optical equivalent of the Swaro SLC.Now, having said that, and in comparison to the EL the Meostars display noticeably more color fringing over a larger portion of the image. The center 30% of the image is free of any fringing but it gets a bit worse as you move out from there. Also, though the Meostars have a very generous "sweet spot" of image in focus and relatively free of distortion they do still have slightly more edge distortion than that of the ELs or SLCs.</blockquote>