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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CliveP" data-source="post: 3305043" data-attributes="member: 85835">IT'S BACK:clap::t:Round two.Sun is coming up (was delivered yesterday evening, already dark) so I'm looking at it again against my Hawke Frontier 8x25 PC & Viking Vistron 8x25.So far Hawke is sharpest and clearest with best contrast and very accurate focus but smallest view, Vistron biggest view and perhaps brightest overall but it's basically a real chore to get it to a sharp focus due to slack in focuser so I probably will ask Viking if they can do anything about it and it has lowish contrast. Vistron very good glare control and no CA issue.The Bresser seems to be a bin for daylight only really despite it's larger objectives. I see more CA and more glare also. In this still low overcast morning it's kind of being outperformed by the other two it seems.I'll give a few more thoughts after I've spent the day with it. I'm sure it's going to get better when the light gets up as it seems to still have the good colour (which is basically the main reason I like it) and I know it does have good contrast and sharpness when the light is enough and this one they sent seems to be better collimated and the focuser now works, the hinge is tight etc. I'm actually surprised it had the lowest low light performance in this little test this morning but that's how it looks.If the Vistron would focus it would be the winner here. I must contact Viking. As it is the Hawke gets round one of Bresser round two if you see what I mean:eek!: This is just an indoor sitting at the window test so I know when out then the Hawke will show it's weak glare handling. I'll try and bring all three out later and see if I can deduce anything meaningful.I'm still glad I got a good working Bresser so thanks to them and I'm sure the underdog will fare better out later, possibly even very well with the autumn colours so I definitely will go try that.</blockquote>

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