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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hermann" data-source="post: 3362591" data-attributes="member: 4925">Depends a bit on how you're using your binoculars, don't you think? If you regularly spend the whole day in the field, birding from sunrise to sunset, or hiking longer distances, especially in difficult terrain, you've got to keep the weight down. And make no mistakes: There's a huge difference between carrying a 1000 gr binocular and one that weighs below 800 gr.Oh, the Design Selection series. Perhaps the worst design error Zeiss made in their long history of making binoculars, ever. When they came out a couple of birders I know got the lightest of the lot, the 7x45. Used them for half a year or so, then switched to something lighter. Even the hunting fraternity over here shunned them because of their excessive weight. Hermann</blockquote>