Spotting Scope Help!!

[gadwall]

http://www.cameralandny.com/optics/minox.pl?page=62210

A really good scope for the money. Not as nice as a zeiss or swaro but a lot less money

ribka seems to know his stuff.  I don't have any experience with the Minox but I do have a 400.00 Nikon and it does great for hunting sagebrush muleys.

[ZRS-8x42]

I also see on this Zen spotter(witch is pretty slick looking btw) you say:

"•2nd Generation Extra Low Dispersion (ED) Glass: Best in Class resolution"

what other glass was in this class.

I apologize for just seeing your post until now.

I would group the following spotters into this class: Swaroski, Kowa Prominar, Vortex Razor, Zen ED2.  What they have in common is the fullsize ED spotting scope with compact design. It's easy to build a good quality spotting scope without worrying about size and weight. It's also not too hard to build a APO spotter with one piece of ED glass.  But to build a compact ED spotter (shorter focal length) with compromising the image quality, the requirement for glass grinding precision, coating, collimation is at a totally different level.  To achieve that, those spotters all have at least two pieces of ED objective lenses.

[addicted]

wow that is a pretty broad range of optics.

[Bob33]

I would group the following spotters into this class: Swaroski, Kowa Prominar, Vortex Razor, Zen ED2. 

I'm curious why you left the Zeiss 85 off your list?

[MtnMuley]

Me too.  I tried them all, including the Leica Televid77 that wasn't mentioned either, and chose the Zeiss 85 HD over them all.

[ZRS-8x42]

I would group the following spotters into this class: Swaroski, Kowa Prominar, Vortex Razor, Zen ED2. 

I'm curious why you left the Zeiss 85 off your list?

This list is not exclusive. I list them there because they have similar design.  I agree with you and the other poster, the Zeiss 85mm FL spotter is a superior product!

[Pathfinder101]

What is your top price range alumiweld?

(BTW, I'll second what Gringo said about the Sequoia, I was just about to pull the trigger on one, and a few guys on this site told me to take one outside and look at something far away.  They were right.  It was no better than my $150 Alpen that I was already using.  When I upgraded, I sacked up and bought a used Golden Ring off Ebay for about $600.  Worth every penny in Montana this fall. )
...Oh, and for the record, the new Zen Ray scope was not available when I bought my spotter.  I have the Zen Ray ED2 binoculars 8X43s, and I LOVE them...