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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kabsetz" data-source="post: 3309058" data-attributes="member: 10167">I also think that the future is fully digital, but at present the image quality presented to the eye is not as good in EVF:s or the current digital binoculars as it is in conventional binoculars, with or without IS. Once they get there, though, the advantages of fully digital binoculars will be so great that they will quickly (or not, taking into account how conservative birders are) take over.There are considerable possibilities opening up when going fully digital. In addition to stabilization, there can be both automatic and manual adjustment for contrast, image brightness and even color balance to suit the eye optimally. I would also speculate that it would be possible and perhaps beneficial to make a trinocular, with a large objective in the center to provide high detail resolving power, brightness and contrast, with a smaller diameter binocular lens pair on either side providing the stereopsis information. Digital processing would then produce the optimal binocular view from these three inputs by combining their output for the two eyes.But in the interim, among the available options, for me the Canon works the best.Kimmo</blockquote>