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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3413157" data-attributes="member: 109211">Well GiGi, thats folks for you, unadventurous sometimes and a little afraid to be underpowered by having a binocular with a magnification lower than everyone elses.I can't criticise others for this either because I suffered from it for a couple of years. I used to have a Dialyt 10x40 GBA and wanted a bigger field of view, depth of field and closer focusing but was nervous about a reduction in magnification. When the original Swarovski EL was launched I finally managed to pluck up the courage to drop down from 10x to 8.5x, encouraged by the fact that the Swaro was superior in every way to the Zeiss. But a little part of my head was secretly pleased that I didn't have to go all the way down to 8x!:-OA close relation of mine has said that he would never consider a 7x because he would always have the nagging feeling in his mind that he was going to miss something by having a lower magnification than the 8x he is used to.And this, I guess, is the problem with sensible combinations like 6x24 and 7x28. Too many folks have this nagging feeling that they might miss something.Lee</blockquote>