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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adhoc" data-source="post: 3563126" data-attributes="member: 131373">Jgraider, thanks for the comments. It seems to me, though, that there is not much of a contadiction here. For the difference to show up well, I had in mind more of a price, and co-relating to that a quality, difference, than between the instruments you mention. The OP cites the Zeiss SF vs the Zeiss Terra.Also, Alexis Powell's idea that I quote has the words "tends to", and to that I add "(generally)", so it does not cover every case of an individual user and his/her experience with a particular very-high-priced binocular and a particular much-lower-priced one. As they say, exceptions excepted!I am interested to know if your experience with the Toric, Conquest and Gold Ring is that they are not relaxing, i.e. difficult to look through for long periods, or not notably relaxing, in order to have an idea of how you find the Swaro EL 10x50 in that respect. As I remember at least one person on the forum said that he was using it as his main glass, in which case the view should be easy on his eyes. Going by such reports here I have recommended the model to a friend, who may already be moving in the matter! My critical experience of scopes is zero, as I much prefer not to look with only one eye! (From time to time friends press me to look through their scopes, ranging from pretty basic to "alpha", at some detail of a distant bird, but I quickly peep and recoil.) I would be surprised to hear what you say about that Zeiss scope if it is one of their top-tier models in optical quality. If, however, it corresponds to their 3rd tier in binoculars, the Terra, then it is not up there at the level of quality I had in mind in my last post. (Sorry I am ignorant about the model.)</blockquote>

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