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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Odradek" data-source="post: 3837114" data-attributes="member: 110559">I have a SLC 8x42 since almost 6 years and no matter what other binoculares i tested i like my SLC the most. It is by far my favourite binocular. I tried a 8,5x42 aswell as a 10x50 EL, a zeiss 8x32 fl and a trinovid 8x32 bn. Even though i miss the compact size of the trinovid bn in all other regards the slc is my everyday binocular. The advantages of the 42mm diameter are more important for me than a few grams less. Even on long journeys it is not to heavy (worn with a harness).Sure, the focus is a bit slower than in other binoculars. But so far it never was a reason i missed a bird. Holger Merlitz wrote that the faster focusing binoculars !might! have a tendency for technical failures. Regarding the noise the focus wheel sometimes does i cant imagine that it is the armour. Sooner or later it must be grinded down and the sound should disappear. My whole „dino skin“ was almost smooth after 5 years just by touching with the bare hand. If it would be excessive armour that produces the sound it must be worn of aswell sooner or later. I sended my bino to swarovski and they fixed it. Its completely silent now. By the way, i had never a difference between focus directions. In both directions i cant feel any resistance at all.My only real complain about the slc is the lens cap from hard plastic. Whoever came up with this idea should be covered with such a thing too!! If you try to sneak through the field with this thing constantly knocking against the binocular knows what i mean. And it never remains on the binocular. After a few steps it always falls off. I tried to order rubber caps from the el series but swaro told me that they wont fit.Is the wb hd the older or newer version? The one with the black hinges are older and today there are only the ones with the green hinge. Is there a difference?</blockquote>

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