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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dorian Gray" data-source="post: 3609542" data-attributes="member: 61072">Thanks for the discussion and documents, all.Alexis: I’m surprised to hear about these small mechanical shortcomings. Binoculars seem mechanically simple compared to other everyday items like cars, and yet so many of them have minor faults in operation (at least for any one user).By the way, I have noticed I sometimes have to slightly change the dioptre compensation on my Nikon 8x32 SE, mainly when using them in the evening or night. I hadn’t come up with a sensible guess for why that might be, but perhaps it’s also temperature-related then?Breydon: would you give an eBay item number for that binocular? I didn’t easily find it.I’m going off the idea of acquiring a pair of these, since the price is so high for a clean, late-production example with phase-correcting coatings. A pity I missed the opportunity to buy these new.</blockquote>