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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adhoc" data-source="post: 3423079" data-attributes="member: 131373">Sorry, a lapse on my part! I just found that Tobias provides a very clear answer to this question. It is in the following two extracts and I missed it because it is not in the addendum but inserted in the main review. (BTW, my interest has now changed to 10x42, of the Leica Ultravid-Plus and Nikon EDG-II.)"Generally, brightness is difficult to rate, and for me the most important thing is the visible sparkle the new HT glass brings to Ultravid and Zeiss HT, but this is much more about beauty, emotion and aesthetics than about functionality. Even in beginning twilight, where brightness differences may be most important, I was not able to see more usable details with a Zeiss HT than with the quite dark Nikon EDG. In night vision, I see no differences at all.""To my eyes the Zeiss HT is the brightest glass and high transmission would be thought of as indispensable for hunting glasses. But in late twilight when I could still clearly see colours I was unable in handheld use to get more useful detail from a scene using the HT instead of the visibly darker Nikon EDG."Thank you, caesar and kestrel1. Kestrel1, reverting to my query, what about actual detail, though?</blockquote>