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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CliveP" data-source="post: 3360280" data-attributes="member: 85835">Good old Optical Hardware, purveyors of my crap Visionary 8x22 U.They got back to me quite quickly and the upshot is they claim it is an expensive HD bak4 model and has many good reviews so mine may be faulty and go back to your dealer.I had told them I bought it at auction.Zero help.To them it could be HD and expensive compared to some of the stuff they sell but my 15x70 porro are Visionary HD and they are actually quite good.I would love to know if anyone else has ever experienced one of these and if it can actually be sharp but I guess I'll never know.It's a great size and great low weight and I would really like to get one of these 8x22 reverse porros that worked well so I will probably be buying the Carson to try at some stage if I don't spot anything else. At least I know I can modify that if needed and if the 8x22 optics are the same quality as the 7x18 then it definitely should be good or could even be great.</blockquote>