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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NDhunter" data-source="post: 1562473" data-attributes="member: 74573">I too am wanting to comment on the new 7x36 ED2.  I received mine yesterday,  and from the first time I looked through these the edge crescent, with distortion was very obvious.  I have experience with all 3 Nikon Se's. Swar 8.5 EL, Nikon EDG, and so I was looking forward to a new lighter weight type, in an easy to view through 7 power.  The center sweet spot, brightness, and everything else is very good but the edge problems were disappointing.  A couple of things that may be going on here, I do not wear glasses, and have 20:20 vision, my son has the same, and today, I wanted him to see my new purchase and without saying anything to him, the first thing he said was the same, about the cloudy edges.  So for some here who are delighted in these bins, I don't know if they wear glasses, so if the eye relief is changed, or what is going on here.I contacted ZenRay with my concern, and spoke to Charles over the phone and he explained that the desire to maintain the wide FOV in the 7x36, made a compromise in the design to allow some of this.  I told him that edge sharpness is important to me and it would have been better to have the field stop help prevent some of this. I would give up FOV for better performance. I don't know if the 8x and 10x are like this but some may have both.Even my 30 year old Nikon Action 7x35's do not exhibit any kind of edge dropoff like this and for me I am quite disappointed.I wish ZR well as a new company, and as hyped up as these have been on this Forum, I hope they are not a flash in the pan!</blockquote>

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