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I have a bout 40 binos in my current collection. My top 5x would be from [big to small] Oberwerk 100x 25 IF - great light gatherers with sharp contasty images. Horizon 15X80 - older Japanese assembled binos with Bak 4 / FMC's - built like a tank. Orion Resolux 15x70 - probably my best 'all round' binos, Nikon 10x56 Monarch’s – good quality roofs and my Carl Zeiss 10x50 Jenoptem WA – limited eye relief but just great optics. I have a large collection of 1960 – 1990 Japanese made binos – the best ones being - Canon 7x50, Ashai Pentax 10x50, Pentax PCF 111’s 12x50 and Yashica 7x50’s – these earlier Jap binos have excellent build and optical qualities - the main issues being limited eye relief.
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