There ya go, see how easy that was.The whole point of the post was to not worry about were the glass or lenses are made. Just worry about the actual performance.
nope its japeneseI think its German glass. I have compared my hd5 5-25×50 with my v4 6-24x50 which has Japanese glass and the hd5 is definitely a lot clearer. The v4 has a much better field of view though.