Also, I had been looking forward to allbinos.com, then the HG-L in both the 8x32 and 8x42 in the class was my favorite. Unfortunately, the premature praise have not been confirmed in practice. When 8x42 I can indeed confirm the already mentioned by other reviewers high brightness, this was even slightly better than that of a Kowa Prominar 8,5x44 (with 10% more light input surface!). But in dark edges backlit himself stood in center chromatic aberration in such strength on that perception was extremely disturbed by details. Those who should be interested in this glass to check before buying whether he feels the poor command of CA disturbing. For me it was unfortunately reason to refrain from buying.