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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brocknroller" data-source="post: 3261914" data-attributes="member: 665">It was a low humidity but warm day, the pairing of which is rare in these parts, so I went to one of my favorite lookouts and tried using the 8x32 Terra ED at a distance for the first time, and the resolution held up well. Normally, the views would be blurred late in the afternoon, but at 4:30, the view was blurred only when looking over the nearby housing developments. Spotted a vulture right away, some robins, a swallow darted by at Warp 9, and out from the strip of woods on top of the hill in back of Sam's Club came a groundhog to see what this biped with long, tubular eyes was up to. When he realized I was watching him, he scuttled back into the woods. I left some peanuts near his borrow. While I was panning the ridge looking for BOP, I fiddled with the eyecups to get them at the right height were I could see almost the full FOV. Farther out, the eyecups are less comfortable and the edges are cut off. My finger nail slid under the eyecup and lo and behold, there was a frame below the eyecup. The eyecups are rubber, not plastic (they just feel hard because of their flat shape). The eyecup frame looks and feels like metal, but it could be hard plastic. It occurred to me that if the Terra has a metal frame or at least plastic frame with rubber eyecup covers, wouldn't the more expensive Conquest HD, HT and SFs? Has anyone checked their Zeiss bins to see if there's a frame below the rubber eyecups or are they solid plastic/nylon as some have suggested? Brock</blockquote>

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