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Message: <blockquote data-quote="oetzi" data-source="post: 3164503" data-attributes="member: 114400">BM-shops do have the two big disadvantages of rarely stocking what I lust for and of not enabling me to try the binos satisfactorily. We have one big hunting-store (Frankonia) in my hometown with a really good selection of binos <a href="http://www.frankonia.de/optik/fernglaeser/Artikel.html" target="_blank">http://www.frankonia.de/optik/fernglaeser/Artikel.html</a>. But the bino-part of the store is in the basement, not even a window being close by. So I preselect by evaluating whether a bino fits my eyes and then have to do mailorder.OT:I am very much a fan of 7x, but havent yet found one to fill my needs. A good Porro or roof in this class, that would be too good to be true. Leica and Habicht dont feature the FOV I want, the latter being unacceptable narrow and the former still 10m below any good 8x. For a gven amount of money I can get better.So I am continously on the look-out for a good s/h one like the Nikon 7x35. But with the way Nikon does service here in Germany (I didnt have that good experiences with the camera service over some decades) I wouldnt order any USA-based one from ebay. The risk being too high that I would have to invest a large chunk of money in a service to make it usable.</blockquote>