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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flatlander" data-source="post: 1560617" data-attributes="member: 78837">I ordered the 10x ED2s.  I am getting ready to send them back to Zen Ray because of the clouding issue.  I thought about requesting a different pair until I got on here and saw that everyone else was having the same problem I did to some degree.  I used them over the weekend and found the gray crescent to be such a nuisance at nearly all times of day that I switched to a lesser pair of binos so I didn't have to deal with it.  At times the clouding covered nearly half of the view and was always present no matter what I tried.For me everthing had to be perfect to reduce the crescent to unnoticable levels.  For the way that I use binocs, perfect conditions are hard to find and changing long developed viewing habits, nearly impossible.  These just didn't work out for me.  I should say though that it's going to be hard to look through lesser binocs when I remember those few times when I experienced such optical bliss with the ED2s.</blockquote>