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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RJM" data-source="post: 1867272" data-attributes="member: 66340">I was in Manhattan last week and and realized Cameraland NY was only 2 blocks from my hotel so popped in to checkout the shop and to get my first looks at a ZR 8x43 ED2. FWIW, Cameraland NY seemed to be a nice small shop with very polite and helpful staff (Lenworth Scott). Definitely a step up from other Midtown camera stores and with not much smaller floorspace than Adorama. I would not hesitate to place an online order with them.  Anyway, the ZR ED2 seemed surprisingly light given its bulky appearance. Really could not evaluate the optics objectively other than to say I needed to set the eyecups to the second postion for optimum FoV with no standout aberrations. Perhaps it was the oversized focus knob, but I got the ergonomic sensation of having to use a narrow IPD setting. Hard to put my finger on it exactly, maybe it was the open bridge, but the "illusion" of a large heavy binocular that actually felt lightweight and "small" just seemed strange.</blockquote>