I would add that those old finders are my favorite commercial 50mm finder ever...that's why I bought several. Of course, these days I build my own design. But the Edmund finders were famous for a wide field, long eye relief, and easily focused crossline reticle. Brass and aluminum construction, no plastic. The soft rubber eyeguard is nice for cold evenings and blocks out ambient light. Also helps you position your eye correctly in the dark. They are on the heavy side, thanks to the rugged construction and the paper-weight eyepiece- what a chunk of glass! Not for small Dobs or you'll have balance issues. The oldest ones were sold in a gray wrinkle finish, the later ones in gloss red, but all are optically identical. This was the finder that allowed me to get good at the "both eyes open" technique. You keep both eyes open and mentally superimpose the magnified view in the eyepiece with the non-magnified view of the same spot in the sky seen with the other eye. Place the cross-hairs in the finder on the target on the non-magnified sky, and voila! Dead-center, almost every time. Some folks can't do this. I think they are the same people who have difficulty seeing the images in random-dot stereograms. I usually stripped-off the factory paint and refinished mine to match the scope it was intended for. I'll try and post a photo of the one I polished-out and left unpainted. How much $$, Patrick? --- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:

Anyone looking for an Edmund Scientific 8x50 finder?

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