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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rathaus" data-source="post: 3225083" data-attributes="member: 132018">I also have an old 6x30 and 7x42 and they are exquisite. Their focuser is far far lighter than my newish 8x30...obviously worn in nicely over 40years or more.I used to have a fear of small apfov binos but couldn't resist getting the 7x42. What is interesting I how my brain has adapted and now feels completely relaxed and at ease with their narrow apfov. I'll be getting a new pair of these as well. Also, the stunning aroma of the old 7x42 is far far more potent than my other habichts. I can smell it from metres away. I think the smell matures especially if kept in one of the proper Swarovski leather cases. For anyone with a highly developed olfactory lobe, it can act something like a time machine. :smoke:I'm new to relatively small apfov, and one of the benefits I find is that not only is the entire fov useable, but my eyes obviously don't need to swivel as much to search the stationary fov. It's relaxing. Tonight I went from the Habicht 7x42 directly to the 8.5 SV and the apfov was relatively so huge that to explore it stationary my eyes were almost swivelling into the back of my head. I see the benefits of both. You can't have everything I guess.</blockquote>