Thank's guys,
I know my question was about 7x but I ended up with a pair of 8x42 FL's and they are wonderful. I compared them with 7x42 FL, 8x42 Ultravid's and 8.5x42 EL's.
The only chance I had to compare them was inside the store which isn't exactly optimum conditions but I didn't have any other choice as the closest store which carries more that 1 brand of high end optics was 2 hrs. away.
I'm deffinately no optics expert, my only experience with binoculars comes from a pair of 7x35 porro prism minoltas that I paid $50 for about 10 years ago, which actually provide a decent view when the lenses don't fog, and a pair of 10x42 B&L Discoverers that I have had for about 5 years, are holding up excellently and provide a good view. I've read alot of reviews to get an idea of what to look for in the premium models, and I concluded that optically they would all be very close to one another, so I concentrated my comparisons on the diopters, eye cups, ergonomics and feel of the focusers more than the optics.
I found it somewhat difficult to tell a difference between the 7 and 8x42 FL inside the store, I did find that the long straight items such as the beams inside the building had a tendancy to bend in the outer edges of both pairs this was not disturbing to me in any way. I like the locking eye cups, the diopter and I really like the smooth housing without those annoying thumb grooves which both of my other pairs have and I find them to be totally useless. I found the focus to be good but not great, it feels similar in speed to my B&L's.
The 8x42 Ultravids had the same charcteristics with the beam bending in the outer edges as the Zeiss but they appeared to make a sharper bend then what either the 7 or 8x FL's did. I liked the eye cups and the diopter on the Leicas but I found the focuser to be rough and I did not like the feel of them, they had tall ridges next to the thumb indents and were not comfortable in my hands at all, I new as soon as I picked them up that I was not buying them.
The 8.5x42 EL's have eye cups that feel exactly like the ones on my discoverers which I have to twist them out every time I lift them up to look through them (strke one) the diopter was fine, I liked the slower focus, the feel of them was better than the Leicas but not as good to me as the Zeiss FL., they felt a little more rugged than the Zeiss but I think that's due to the weight difference more than any build quality issues.
I also took a look at the Bushnell Elites and found them to provide a very good view, the field of view appeared to be narrower than the others, they had a better feel to me then the EL's, the focuser was very smooth and similar to the EL in speed but it felt loose, kinda like it needs a little more friction to keep from possibly going in and out of focus.
Optically I found all of the bins I looked at to be very good, in the end it came down to personal preference which for me was the 7 or 8x42 Zeiss FL, since I have never owned a pair of full size 8x I decided to buy one and I couldn't be happier with my decision.