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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3413015" data-attributes="member: 109211">It is most definitely the case that when buying some things, people are very conservative. Take guitars for example where the most popular designs today are still the shapes that Fender, Gibson and Martin created in the 1950's. Are binocular-buyers as conservative as this and unwilling to change?On the one hand the shift from porros to roofs would seem to indicate some open-mindedness, but on the other, if 7x bins don't sell in sufficient numbers when partnered by well established objective sizes such as 42mm why on earth would bins manufacturers risk partnering this magnification with 28mm?Note that I am not saying a 7x28 would not be a great instrument but I am questioning the likelihood of manufacturers taking the risk of making it.Mind you, Nikon might be up for it, since no price point niche seems to be beyond their willingness to stick a pair of bins in it.Lee</blockquote>