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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3424796" data-attributes="member: 109211">Its a good question Mike and I suspect that the answer is based in commercial considerations rather than those technical aspects that you discuss.Is the FL 32mm series selling enough units, is the question that Zeiss must be considering. If it is selling steadily then they may decide to give priority to other product developments. And since FL is still there after so many years maybe this is exactly what is happening and your answer could be that indeed nothing much needs to be changed, at the moment.I have been using my FL 32 quite a lot recently and it is a class instrument but you could say the same about many a model that has been replaced and probably the reason is that despite their solid performance, other newer models from other brands were taking sales,  so the solid performer needed updating in some way.I would look forward to an SF 32 on the assumption that it would have the handling and FOV advantages of the 42, but not because I feel FL 32s are inadequate, far from it. But Swaros EL SV 32 is the class leader and no doubt Zeiss will feel compelled to replace FL at some point to compete. Meanwhile Leica continues to do what Leica does.......Lee</blockquote>