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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dracon" data-source="post: 3268539" data-attributes="member: 14799">Lee - If I had full mobility of both thumbs and forefingers, I would be a concert pianist.  But alas, playing even chop sticks is a challenge. But as strange as my desire to have the Zeiss 8x30 IF again may appear, it is because the one I had and sold to a buddy went through a series of mishaps which would render almost any binocular useless.  But the Zeiss survived.  I've been watching the U-tube special by Zeiss on their Conquest being dropped, run over, tossed, and shot, the kind of intentional abuse which most binoculars will never see.  It's pretty impressive.So much so, it would be the kind of binocular one would loan to your brother in law or more careless friend. Anyway several years ago I told the story about how the Zeiss 8x30 IF endured a series of different kinds of abuses.  How to believe, but it did happen.John</blockquote>