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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 1537162" data-attributes="member: 56622">Kevin, in this assessment of the Monarch X, I fully concur.  I would not select the X over a ZEN if it were half as much money.  Nikon had a winner with the original Monarch, so much so they were able to sit on their laurels with it for over a decade.  I happen to think they laid an egg with the Monarch X.As for the SE, yes it is a good glass, but unless re-introduced, its "bargain" status is pretty ephemeral.  There can't be many left, and if there was the demand for them, those few survivors would not be bargains as they are now.  I am more curious about the image of a more decently compact, wide fov 7x36 ZEN than I am about an SE.  Not to say I won't get an SE if the conditions align.</blockquote>