Need advise fast

[Freddy_Mercurio]

I'm probably going to order the Pentax 100mm scope tomorrow. What eye piece or pieces do you think I should get? The primary use will be digiscoping.
Am I making a mistake getting this scope since there doesn't seem to be any reviews available yet?
Thanks,
Dan

[stevo]

Hi Dan

From memory I think the Pentax scope uses large chunky eyepieces,I don`t know if anyone manufactures an adapter to fit these eyepieces.Maybe someone else on the forum can help.

Regards Stevo.

[normjackson]

Worth bringing this to the top of the pile Stevo. I saw this last night and saw paulyoly online so thought maybe he'd spot this post. He uses a pentax XL28 eyepiece in his PF80ED, I believe, with a homemade adaptor. This eyepiece would give 22.5x magnification in the PF100ED (18x in PF80ED).

You can also get eyepieces which screw directly into the Nikon 28mm filter thread :
http://www.william-optics.com/accessory/dcl28.htm
http://www.scopetronix.com

[Freddy_Mercurio]

What do you folks think of the minimum focusing distance of 28 feet? Too far?

[Tannin]

I'd be a little concerned about that, Freddie. I have not found the 5m minimum of my Swarovski a problem, but at about 9m that's almost double, and I've used my scope at that sort of distance reasonably frequently. I wouldn't cross it off your list, but it's something to think about.

BTW and off-topic, I was amused at myself just now. I had to do sums in my head to convert your feet into metres before I could visualise how far 28 feet is. But the funny thing is that I grew up using feet, back before the country went metric!

[Freddy_Mercurio]

President Carter tried to convert us to the metric system back in the 70's, didn't work.
I've put off the order until I can get some more feedback on this scope. I still will probably get it since I will use it for more than digiscoping birds. If it doesn't work out I can liquidate it on Ebay.