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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Owl" data-source="post: 3609658" data-attributes="member: 130540">Thank you, Arthur; thank you, Alexis.You are quite right, of course, that I typed Zeiss BN for Leica BN -- twice :eek!: -- while my brain was on another planet.  Sorry about that.There is a coda to my tale: the already emerging cult of the 7x42 B/GA Classic as it was 15 years ago.I went to Ace Optics in Bath which stocked all five brands, and spent quite some time trying them all out for myself.  As I implied in my last post, I turned down the Nikons and the Zeiss Victories quite quickly.The salesman just put the Nikons back on the shelf, but he wasn't letting me give up on Zeiss that easily.  He took out a pair of 7x42 B/GA Classics and said I should have them on my short list together with the Leica BNs and the Swarovski ELs.  (In the end, I chose the ELs -- which I have since heard already had dielectric mirror coatings -- a choice I have never regretted.)The reason, he said was that they had a many a customer like me who was devotedly attached to these older Zeiss bins.(I did half-suspect that by "a customer like me" he meant a middle-aged middle-class white man with an Oxford accent.)  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Later,John</blockquote>