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Message: <blockquote data-quote="typo" data-source="post: 3439571" data-attributes="member: 83808">Jan,I think it's more than a coincidence that the second (or third) tier models from the big three appear to fail to meet the effective resolution standards of their flagship models. (Though there appeared to be a short lived version of the ELSV 8.5x42 that didn't look so good). It seems to offer at least the possibility that by design, and/or specification they were not intended to directly compete by this measure. Makes commercial sense to me at least. Fortunately the competition don't appear to feel the same constraints. It's clearly within the capabilities of OEMs like Kamakura to produce models to a higher resolution standard than used even for the flagship models. The Opticron Aurora and the Kite Bonelli 2 are two fine examples. Why would Zeiss wan't that for a cheaper model?David</blockquote>