I recently purchased a Nikon ed50, which by the is a fantastic scope, with the 13-40x eyepiece. I was sea watching yesterday and the magnification seemed lacking when searching for far out for terns, skuas etc..........i was wondering if the spotting scope 80 is any good, just as a second scope for sea watching, and will the eye piece i have fit it......having bought the ed50/eyepeice i don't have many pennies left.....suggestions???????
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Spotting Scope 80 (1 Viewer)
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JohnnyH
Aldershot till I die!
Ian,
The eyepiece you have will not fit the spotting scopes, my suggestion would be to get a wide angle eyepiece such as the 27x for your ED50. Generally a wide angle of view is more useful than high magnification for sea watching. The wide angle eyepiece I have mentioned will have the same angle of view as the zoom you have at it's 13x setting, but will give you increased magnification.
Cheers,
John.
Hi Ian and welcome to BirdForum
As Johnny said the eyepeice you have will not fit the spotting scope, but it will work on eth 82mm fieldscope (25-75x zoom). I understand you issue with magnification for seawatching, it is the thing that has put me off going for an ED50, I know for seawatchig I like to have a useable 20-60 zoom.
As Johnny said the eyepeice you have will not fit the spotting scope, but it will work on eth 82mm fieldscope (25-75x zoom). I understand you issue with magnification for seawatching, it is the thing that has put me off going for an ED50, I know for seawatchig I like to have a useable 20-60 zoom.
