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Message: <blockquote data-quote="peatmoss" data-source="post: 3324697" data-attributes="member: 119647">Tenex, thanks for the binocular review.  Reviews from diverse users are important because everyone reacts differently to binoculars, and so it's always healthy to have more viewpoints available.  More data points, that's all.  The wobbly diopter is likely either a QC issue or maybe just plain wear-and-tear.  These are, after all, demo models that may have been used by others before you.  Either way, this unit ought to go back to the company asap.  As far as the glare, some users have reported the issue with the Kite and Nikon variants, so it's interesting to hear it mentioned in regard to this version too.I can also appreciate your frustration with these problems especially in light of the marketing employed by the company.  However, frustrating as it is, that's no reason to dismiss the entire sub-alpha binocular world.  There's plenty of excellent binoculars at all price points.  But you won't find any "perfect" binoculars here.  So it's just a matter of finding the right binocular within your budget whose faults don't bug you too much.  I suppose one lesson you learned here is how important glare control is for you. Etudiant, if you want to create a special category for Swaro, go right ahead.  But I don't see why you've chosen to nominate Nikon as the poster-boy for "these in between suppliers" who "are not sufficiently long standing to be credible long term guarantors."  Nikon has been selling binoculars for decades, and I've got decades old Nippon Kogaku binoculars that I'm happy to use today.  Are these still under warranty?  Of course not.  That was never part of the deal.  But I for one am quite confident that Nikon will be around for a long time to come, and that they will honor the terms of any warranty that they give today.</blockquote>

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