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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kevin Purcell" data-source="post: 1710143" data-attributes="member: 68323">Precisely. Its the problem of tradition. Though Zeiss traditionally made porros. Until they stopped. I suspect if they do take this route they might keep the 7x42 on as "Classic 2" or something. But it will take some balls for that marketing manager to suggest it. One also wonders what Zeiss users would think too. If it's got an SP prism in it why not get a Leica or a Swaro (the latter might come down to pricing).The light path is more folded in an SP than an AK so the SP gets a higher f/number for a given barrel length. And that helps a bit too.We've already seem (the original Victory) when Zeiss tried to shorten the bin but kep the AK prisms and that didn't work out so well. But since then they seem to have evolve dthe product (same with the newest Diascopes). So I think more evolution rather than revolution in the next FL bin.</blockquote>