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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilmore Girl" data-source="post: 3351861" data-attributes="member: 106744">If something is bothersome to someone then it's a real issue to that person, so I don't want to suggest thatSt Elmo's experience with Leica focus wasn't valid. It wasn't satisfactory to him and Leica customer service alsowas not satisfactory.Everyone has different tolerance levels. When I received my Swaro CL and noticed the little bit of gritty feel in one spot of the focus I thought...ok, others have mentioned this very thing with Swaro on the forum. I decided it wasn't bothersome enough to warrant fixing or an exchange.  It didn't affect my bird watching and after a while I didn't think much of it anymore. One time I was interested in the Alpen Rainier 8x32 and a few had commented about a yellow cast to the image. Some couldn't abide it and another member told me not to worry; that it's really not yellow, but a subtle cream color. I ordered the bin and checked for myself and could barely just detect a very subtle cream color when looking at white objects. Still a very nice image and the cream color barely there and certainly not bothersome to me in any way.  I returned  it for being bulky and heavy however.This is why I don't take the 'putrid green ' color cast (if it even exists) of the SF seriously. In both of these examples, some would react as I did, some wouldn't notice and some would not be able toleratethese issues at all.</blockquote>