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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3654863" data-attributes="member: 109211">45erI know what you mean and it seems commonsense that Leica should have upgraded these bins to modern standards. You are concerned about waterproofing, (I am not because of my wife's experiences with her original, see above) my own beef would be with the lack of a modern close focus.But Bob is right too. These binos are icons of the past and are being made available again and will be attractive to nostalgia-struck oldies and collectors, as well as those interested in the development of the modern roof-prism bino and Leica's unique use of the Uppendahl prisms.Anyone who wants a work-horse built to modern standards of weather proofing can choose other Leica models or indeed from a host of other brands.If these Trinnies had a modern 2 metre or 1.5metre close focus I can say without a shadow of doubt that my wife would get one and take it out in the foulest of weather without a second's thought, just as she did with her old Trinnies for decades.Lee</blockquote>