"Part traded in a pair of Leica Trinovid HDs for these, nice binoculars and great handling but too much CA for my liking. Amongst many other strengths, these little CLs have that issue under much better control. Chose these in preference to the NL 8x32s which were physically just a little too big for my liking (I felt they weren’t sufficiently more compact than the NL or EL 42mm models, nor sufficiently less expensive). Overall, these CLs compare very favourably with my (clearly superior) Zeiss Victory FL 8x32s, but they do have some key benefits for me: easier eye placement, flatter field and sharper edge performance. Diopter on these takes a little getting used to and was almost a deal breaker for me initially because I found it decidedly fiddly when trying them out, but I very quickly got used to it and it’s a non-issue, indeed I’ve actually come to rather like it. Eyecups only have two set positions but they are first rate and I have established that, if needed, an intermediary position can be achieved without too much fuss thanks to the quality of manufacture; for me though, fully-out works perfectly without glasses (how I normally use binoculars) and fully-in achieves the same with glasses: in each case I can see the full FOV to the sharply defined field stop and no blackouts. FOV is very decent, image sharpness almost up there with the ELs and NLs, CA control nearly as good on-axis, image brightness not quite up there with the latest Zeiss offerings or the NLs but pretty much on-par with the ELs and SLCs, colour rendition 100% Swarovsky, decent depth of field, low weigh, solid feel in hand and generally excellent ergonomics all round, lens caps that fit, and (if my memory serves me well) a clear step-up from the previous version of the same (which I never thought were worth the money over, say, Nikon Monarch 7 8x30s - apart from FOV these are clearly superior in every respect to the Nikons). If I have any criticism it is merely to do with aesthetics: to my taste the slightly industrial look of my Zeiss FLs, or most stuff from Leica, has a nicely understated look that always makes Swarovski roof-prisms, post SLC, look a little on the blingy side of my take on what constitutes good taste, but I buy binoculars to look through rather than to look at and, like the best of my other binoculars (EL, SLC, Habichts, Victory, Ultravids, Genesis) these fulfil my requirements to achieve the former objective (no pun intended) as near as possible to 100% in the niche that they fill. Taking all that into consideration then, in terms of value for money for their price: they fully justify it."