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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilmore Girl" data-source="post: 3433513" data-attributes="member: 106744">Very interesting how different our preferences our here.Maybe there are two camps:Come to think of it , I may have heard others complain that fine tuning with a lower power bin is a pain in the butt.  I think I may have experienced this with 6x at times. I don't have this problem with my 7x. I had the previous trinovid 8x42 before my ultravid and find the slower Leica focus to be preferable, as I'm able to get it fine tuned pretty easily even with 7x. I'm still perplexed how fast focus on a lower power bin could help with fine tuning. The combo of greater dof where you don't have to travel the focus as much and fast focus makes me over travel or overshoot the subject too easily. A very fast focus with 8x I also find annoying in general in the middle distances. However, I can see from close out to far distances the benefits of a fast focus. But, if you think of warbling with a 7x, you  only need to adjust focus just a tiny bit from closer shrubs and trees which makes it easier to get on birds quicker than a bin with shallower dof.  So adding a fast focus into the mix makes overshooting a big problem at least for me. I wonder if anyone else out there feels the same or am I the only weirdo here? It's probably my style of creeping up to fine focus vs. overshooting purposefully and then dialing back which makes me avoid the faster focusing bins. I prefer Leica and Swaro focusers and have gotten used to those speeds on the bins I had: trinovid  , ultravid and Swaro CL. Also my last bin was an opticron which also had slower focus speed, so I have accustomed myself to these.  Perhaps if all of these were fast focusers I would be accustomed to it and come to prefer it.I have avoided Zeiss in part due to their fast focusing bins. It wouldn't stop me from acquiring an FL 8x32 someday however...that one is just  too nice <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. I still need my small midsize bin and little FL is still on the short list.</blockquote>

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