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    Nikon 8x32mm Premier SE has been discontinued by the manufacturer???

    Wow! I haven't checked in with BF in awhile. Figured this thread was just another SE panic. But checking with my sources here in Tokyo and the the death of the SE is TRUE! Could only uncover one 12x50SE left with my usual suspects. Was also surprised to learn CN forums are MIA now too!
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    Fieldscope eyepiece MCII 25x-75x for ED50 and ED82 - missing seal?

    Yeah, I took my zoom to Nikon several years ago and they looked it up in their parts manual and confirmed it does not have the O-ring. They even showed me an "exploded" drawing to prove it.
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    New prices on Swarovision ELs

    Selling glass bangles just doesn't bring the cabbage in like it used to. Takes a lot of it to support the Swarovski clan's Euro royal lifestyle of champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
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    improvements on my trustee kowa tsn 823

    The Kowa Prominar 77X series would not be much of a step down optically but certainly more compact/lighter and more robust. IMO, it is the best sub-80mm scope made.
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    Swarovski Price Increase January 1st, 2014

    Me thinks Bushnell/Vortex/Leupold probably sell more binoculars in a month than Swaro/Zeiss/Leica sell in a year. They are not sweating the Alpha competition, despite Zeiss' intrusion into their space. 8-P
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    How to understand digiscoping magnification

    Yes, and that is beauty of digiscoping with a small sensor compact. You can get relatively fast shutter speeds compared to larger sensor cameras, BUT the smaller sensor produces more noise at an equivalent ISO. If you can shoot the digicam at or within a stop or two of its base ISO, your IQ...
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    How to understand digiscoping magnification

    Go back and read my edit of post #13. IMO, if your goal is to take HIGH QUALITY images for print you really do not get much practical advantage with the extra focal length the Swaro TSO APO offers other than record shot. Understand you will be shooting with small apertures or F14+ when you...
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    How to understand digiscoping magnification

    The PRIMARY advantage of the Swaro TSO APO is that you can change between visual scope/digiscoping lens rather quickly while with the Kowa PZ it is not really practical. If your primary reason to buy either of these is for digiscoping then you are better off going with the Kowa Lens Scope...
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    How to understand digiscoping magnification

    For a variety of technical reasons, you will find the ideal digiscoping effective focal length range to be 1500mm-2700mm. Anything less and you are better off with a traditional lens like the Sigma 50-500. Anything more, and shutter speed gets so slow and ISO gets so high you have a hard time...
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    How to understand digiscoping magnification

    Pretty simple really. In this configuration, the 88x w/PZ adapter combo provides a zoom range of fl=680mm-1000mm/F7.7-11.4. This is the standard true focal length format used all 35mm SLR camera lenses. But your Oly's sensor has a 2x crop factor so the angle of view of this lens is equivalent...
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    Nikon M7 8x30 vs. Kite Lynx HD 8x30

    Jan, my friend is strictly all about the birds. He could really care less about optics. His scope had the fungus for as long as I've know him, 4-5yrs now. They did give him a loner scope while it was away being repaired but he didn't even know the model, just that it was one of the "newer ones."...
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    Nikon M7 8x30 vs. Kite Lynx HD 8x30

    1 year, just like with Zeiss, Leica, Kowa, Pentax, Canon, Vixen and Nikon, et all.
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    Nikon M7 8x30 vs. Kite Lynx HD 8x30

    In Japan, all the OEMs only offer 1yr on sports optics. My friend just had to spend JPY40,000 to have his ~10yr old Swaro HD cleaned of fungus on the prism.
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    The new Nikon Monarch 7 8x30 is very nice!

    Let's not forget CARL ZEISS uses fiberglass reinforced polycarbonate bodies in its top end FLs too. Many combat weapons and the front and rear ends of most modern vehicles use the same plastics. And many of aspheric lens components used in high performance optics are made of plastic too. So the...
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    The new Nikon Monarch 7 8x30 is very nice!

    I don't think Dennis has ever met a binocular he didn't luv UNTIL AFTER HE SELLS THEM! 3:-)
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