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Message: <blockquote data-quote="james holdsworth" data-source="post: 3524532" data-attributes="member: 79864">Veering off-topic, I wonder how a model [Habicht 8x30] that made it's reputation for being [as described by owners / users and some optical ''experts''] the sharpest binocular they had ever seen, actually got that reputation?Assuming you are correct Henry, and your results are typical of the model, then just where does this impression of incredible clarity come from? And this impression isn't just coming from rubes, but many with a lot of binocular experience. Is there some other optical effect in play that suggests sharpness or masks unsharpness?No dog in the hunt here, having never tried a 'current' Habicht, but I am interested in just how these legends get started - and I guess this can apply to the Noctivid too, as it is already gaining mythic status based on mostly subjective criteria.</blockquote>