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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vespobuteo" data-source="post: 3523125" data-attributes="member: 120830">42mm will still be quite limited in brightness and resolution (dawes limit etc.).What would be interesting to know is if there is any significant higher resolution in the NV compared to the other alphas. (looking att USAF test charts) without booster. I doubt that...And for example the 8.5x SV will still have a slight advantage in mag vs the 8x NV in such a comparison.But if the 8x NV would resolve the same as the 8.5x SV I would be impressed.And a 8x50mm UVHD+ bin would probably be superior in resolution to a 8x42 NV also.That said, it's not impossible that the view in the NV by some can be perceived being "snappier" than the competition. And this might be due to the performance at higher spatial frequencies. Equal to camera lenses, some lenses just don't work well with tele converters, and some do better. Correlates mostly to performance at higher spatial frequencies (MTF30), i.e. better micro contrast. But since the eye (brain) is the registrating unit, people will probably see different things and views might differ.</blockquote>