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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrankD" data-source="post: 2442156" data-attributes="member: 18544">John,I would like to thank you as well for chiming in on this model and its variations. Like Steve I have yet to own one despite owning countless other vintage EWA porros. I did briefly own a model that is reportedly similar to one of the variations of the Rangemaster...the Jason Venture 4000. It had a 12 degree field of view and Bak-4 prisms. Not multicoated but in every other way I thought it was entirely comparable with modern porros. Excellent apparent sharpness, very good apparent brightness and a very wide sweet spot.I ended up selling them despite all of these benefits. Why? Well, the eyecup design was not of the style where you could readily remove part of it to obtain more eye relief. So, I was left only seeing about 2/3rds the field of view. That is one issue I simply cannot tolerate so off they went. Still, an excellent binocular.Out of the vintage EWA porros that I still have in my selection I tend to prefer using the Sears Discoverer 7x50  (block body style). I removed the eyecups completely and can now see the full 10 degree field of view. It is a superb image. The field of view is wide compared to anything today. The apparent sharpness is as good as anything I have gotten my hands on plus the sweet spot is wide as well. I would call the apparent brightness as good as or better than any of the other vintage porros I have owned thanks to the huge 50 mm objectives. The lack of multicoatings on the lenses does give the image lower contrast levels than comparable current models but other than that I have no complaints.I just love looking through those. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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