The history of roof prisms binoculars from the SLC series, produced by the Austrian Swarovski Optik company, is really long. The first SLC 8x30 model was launched already in 1989. At some point those instruments constituted actually the top-of-the-range line of that producer in its heyday consisting...
light; compact; very solid housing; very good transmission; good correction of chromatic aberration; negligible astigmatism; slight coma; sharp image in almost all field of view; imperceptible brightness loss on the edge of the field; tubes with excellently blackened interiors; good quality prisms...
a bit too much rubber armour on the housing; minimum focusing distance of 3 metres