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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThoLa" data-source="post: 1353756" data-attributes="member: 50374">I have had the chance to try the Swaro 8x20 last week and the week before (3 different units), and I was very much impressed by their image quality as well as their overall quality - especially so, because of previous reports they may not be competitive anymore. I was indeed thinking along the lines of some internal "brushing up" that might have taken place without much pomp and circumstance. The image was in fact amazingly bright to me, given their size. Sharpness was at least as good  as in a "made in Germany" instrument of the 40 mm class, and the contrast was clearly better. They are monstrously expensive but I am tempted to give them the edge by a small margin (with the Nikon HGL neck to neck). Tom</blockquote>