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I am not great fan of zoom eyepieces. I think of it this way. If you go and buy a camera lens that is a zoom, even very expensive ones over $1000 are noticeable poorer in terms of distortions than a prime lens. If they cannot do it with the dollars available for camera lenses that is selling into a vastly larger market than eyepieces, how are they going to get good results with EPs?
The thing to remember is that the set of prime EPs are a real overkill, most observers will do most of their observing with only 1 or 2 eyepieces. I have quite a full set with 8, 10, 13, 17 and 21 Ethos and a 41 Pan, but mostly use the 13 and 17 for 95% of the time.
Better option may be to decide on a couple of primes that you know you will use, then build up from there. Maybe even get a zoom to complement those 2 for the occasional high power view.
Malcolm
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