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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WriterCJ" data-source="post: 3499113" data-attributes="member: 91823">Review postedHi all... I posted my review of the EDIV to the Ireland's Wildlife site last night. I'm not going to post a link here -- had my wrist slapped / login blocked in the past for sharing even relevant on-topic links to my own site *sigh* -- but you should have no trouble finding it if you want to read it.Overall I was very impressed with the binocular. It's not that there's one stand out feature -- more lots of small refinements that together add up to a significant step up. The EDIV just feels right -- the all-round experience of using it in the field is simply better (of course, as they say, YMMV).The one downside I can -- or rather can't -- see is the absence of dielectric mirror coatings on the new SK15 prisms. I'm not sure how much it would actually improve the binocular's in-the-field performance, but in a market fuelled by perception, where similarly priced competition increasingly offers the feature, the decision may come back to haunt Vanguard.Which is a shame... because there's an awful lot to like here.Anyway... take a look at the review, and you'll see what I think. Overall it's an excellent binocular at the price, and as with its siblings in the Endeavor family it punches well above its weight in terms of performance and build quality.</blockquote>