DRodrigues
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Any users?
Any users?
How is the wide zoom for eye-glass users?
Any users?
How is the wide zoom for eye-glass users?
Any users?
How is the wide zoom for eye-glass users?
I had a quick look through the Monarch Fieldscope with the 30-60x WA EP.
It looked pretty OK at 30x and ER was acceptable with glasses,
but I was not very impressed at higher mag.
I also looked at the Zeiss Gavia, honestly not my cup of tea either, as the quality feel was not very overwhelming.
In what ways did you find it deficient or unimpressive? Is it as least as good as the previous generation (except not supporting magnifications above 60x ?), or was it somehow not as good.
How about the focus efficiency and precision? If I remember correctly, it was originally going to be variable ratio.
Is an adapter available to use it with previous fieldscope eyepieces (including those that go to 75x)?
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I will check out the scope a bit more next time I go to the store. Perhaps this week.
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Would be nice if the wider angle zoom would work on the previous Fieldscopes; especially since they dropped the 1.25 plans. Would have been nice to put the newer zoom on my Fieldscope.
Other than that, cannot see anything here that would make me want to change from my 82 and 50 Fieldscopes with my zoom and fixed EP. I have good samples of both and would be surprised if the new scope bettered them in the areas of importance to me- sharpness, color, etc.
If you still didn't went to the store, I ask you to see the diameter of the scope side of the eyepiece, to see if is smaller to the standard 1.25" astro - if it is, it's easier to make an adapter that will allow reaching focus on scopes that allow the use of 1.25" eps. Other wide AFOV zooms have long bayonets, larger that 1.25" diameter (usually with lens larger than 1.25"), which makes them impossible to reach focus on other spotting scopes. That´s the reason why I don´t have a Leica zoom for my Optolyth 100...
The diameter of the eyepiece at the scope end is 1.77".
I'd also be curious to hear anyone's impressions of the new nikon scopes, especially compared to the older ED fieldscopes. I recently sent my zoom eyepiece from an ed 82 in for repair (stuck zoom), and Nikon replied that they don't replace those zooms anymore but that I could send them the entire scope body for a full replacement. I am hesitant to do this as I also have a couple of fixed eyepieces and extra zoom for my ed 82 and share them with 60mm and 50mm nikon scopes. The new monarch scopes have different eyepieces that can't be shared with older fieldscopes. But if these new ones have a better zoom than the old ones I'd consider replacing my ed 82 body with a new monarch body and zoom, I'd still have my 60 and 50mms for the old eyepieces.
I'd also be curious to hear anyone's impressions of the new nikon scopes, especially compared to the older ED fieldscopes. I recently sent my zoom eyepiece from an ed 82 in for repair (stuck zoom), and Nikon replied that they don't replace those zooms anymore but that I could send them the entire scope body for a full replacement. I am hesitant to do this as I also have a couple of fixed eyepieces and extra zoom for my ed 82 and share them with 60mm and 50mm nikon scopes. The new monarch scopes have different eyepieces that can't be shared with older fieldscopes. But if these new ones have a better zoom than the old ones I'd consider replacing my ed 82 body with a new monarch body and zoom, I'd still have my 60 and 50mms for the old eyepieces.