Good scope for £300 to £400? (1 Viewer)

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Inga4023

Member

• Jul 1, 2008

• #1

We want to buy a scope in the above price range (or cheaper!).

Any recommendations please? My husband wears glasses, I don't, and we want something reasonably lightweight to carry around.

Also there is an Opticron GS665 GA ED on Ebay, would it be worth looking at?

Many thanks

 

Steve Babbs

Well-known member

• Jul 1, 2008

• #2

If you're not in a rush I'd consider hanging around for a bit to see what comes up on the for sale forum. If you want light the nikon ed50 is the scope to go for, I mainly use mine as a travel scope but lots of people use it as their main scope. About £440 new with eyepiece, I got mine second hand from the for sale section.

Cheers

 

Keith Dickinson

Well-known member

Opus Editor

• Jul 1, 2008

• #3

You could try In Focus at Denby Dale, they have a good second hand section. I got my Kowa 823 from them, second hand and with a 50x eyepiece for less than £500.

 

Tero

Retired

• Jul 1, 2008

• #4

Second on small ED scopes> Nikon, Pentax (65mm)

 

stevetb

Registered user

• Jul 1, 2008

• #5

Yeah, I was going to say what tero said.

For your budget and weight choice I would go for a 60 - 65mm scope, as they are pretty lightweight and let it plenty of light.

For your budget, you should be able to get an ED scope - which is a special glass that corrects colour better, and produces sharper images.
However, you need to factor in the cost of an eyepiece and a tripod, so 2nd hand might be best.

Kowa make the Ts 613/614 which are angled/straight 60mm ed scopes, that are very lightweight. You can get the 2ndhand for £200 with an eyepiece if you look hard enough!

Good hunting!

 

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Inga4023

Member

• Jul 2, 2008

• #6

Many thanks for replying, we don't want to make the mistake of buying one and then discovering it isn't what we want.

 

DaveN

Derwent Valley Birder

• Jul 2, 2008

• #7

There's also Birdnet who are based in Buxton, they have a wide range of new and second optics.

http://www.birdnet.co.uk/

 

flippsy

"She's got it bad"

• Jul 9, 2008

• #8

Yes we got a second hand Nikon 65mm ED scope from InFocus with a tripod thrown in for around £350.00 2 years ago. It performs much better than any new scopes for the same price and was an excellent choice for us as new birders. We are still very pleased with it although we also have a new 82mm one as well now, which is a lot heavier...