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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chosun Juan" data-source="post: 3322363" data-attributes="member: 92780">Bob, Looksharp,  I thought it was a real eye-opener!  :eek!:   .......  :-OWhatever the shortcomings in research premise and methodology, it still presented some interesting points.  I would have thought my ability to discern multiple shades of green would have been pretty good given our natural environment here (particularly slopes, ranges, and down to coast), however it seems I have been left in the dust of a Namibian tribe!  (maybe it says more about my cruddy screen than my colour sifting ability .... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I agree, my gut tells me that maybe the search of antiquity could have been a bit more imaginative, thorough and wide ranging, as blue has been around since the year dot, and I'm sure that a clear blue sky would have held some meaning, even if it was "thank the great sky ughhh, that I won't be getting my hungry *ss thoroughly drenched, cold, and miserable today!"  ... or grunts to that effect!!  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />I think it handily demonstrates the point that even though we are all broadly genetically connected, that what we each see is in fact more or less unique, even if a lot of those subtle differences are beyond 'normal' thresholds.  It seems that a component of this is made up of who and what we are as individuals, and the experiences, and expectations we have, quite apart from actual physical geometric differences in viewed environment, viewing medium (eyes, binoculars, etc), and viewing processor (ya noggin!  :brains: ).Every rainbow you see will be unique  *unicorn smilie*, and especially for you, since no other persons eyes can be in precisely the same physical location as your own - and that's before the colour processing and interpretation starts, let alone the flowery linguistic descriptions.  How cool is that?!  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" />  Your very own personal rainbow!  What a wonderful, fantastic world we live in !   :t:I know that in late afternoon, the colour cast perceived by my individual eyes is distinctly different - one blue-green, the other orangy-gold.  I only discovered this courtesy of the hair-splitting minutiae of the bino nutters on here, and systematically, and methodically (single tube, swapping eyes, multiple bins, etc) testing this to be so -- freaked me out for a while too.  However, I have since read here of this being a not infrequent trait among our members.  Of course there's all sorts of weird and spooky-dooky-moodlyooky visions, aura's, etheric energy, "the light", and such to be seen in the veil between this physical 3-D world and other frequencies of vibration - but I will leave those out of bino-world discussions!  o<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />I can see  |:d|  Bill's point that a lot of what we discuss here is just so much fluff and nonsense in practical terms, but I think we all want reassurance by some "freak, ahem .... 'binocular savant' of nature" that even if we ourselves aren't afflicted by, or able to detect a particular aberration, that the binocular has been designed and made to such a high standard and quality, that we know we are getting the currently best available on market for our hard earned $$$ and that improvements are coming along, and at least someone here is able to detect it and validate it .......Looksharp, I recall seeing an old program on the amazing Stephen Wiltshire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wiltshire" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wiltshire</a>   when he was a teenager. From what was shown on film, he literally turned around for a second or so to view some sort of English cityscape, turned back around, and then drew the entire thing to incredible scale, accuracy, and detail -- it was absolutely mind blowing ......Chosun  :gh:</blockquote>

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