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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrankD" data-source="post: 3275306" data-attributes="member: 18544">Waterman,Actually, when I did a little research on the bay, it seemed like most of the units of similar vintage to the Zeiss I was given only sell for between $150-$300. More than your limit for sure but still a heck of alot less than I would have guessed.On another note, since we are kicking around the idea of 7x50s in general and not necessarily just vintage 7x50s then I would suggest the Vixen Foresta 7x50. Amazing optical performance. I did a review of it a couple of years ago. It can be found here:<a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=223931&highlight=Vixen+Foresta+7x50" target="_blank">http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=223931&highlight=Vixen+Foresta+7x50</a>On a related note, back when I had my full vintage binocular collection I was always partial towards both the 7x35 and 7x50s. I had quite a few of them. The Sears Discoverer were one of my favorites. Just something about the overall image representation. I still have one of the 7x35s and one of 7x50s. From what I remember there was some variation from year to year not only in terms of field of view but in other areas as well. Here is a Flickr link to most of my models....<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/73029961@N07/albums" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/73029961@N07/albums</a></blockquote>