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Opticron and colour fringeing (1 Viewer)

wiltshirejohn

wiltshirejohn

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My recent experiences bear out remarks made in a number of previous threads. I went to InFocus at Slimbridge (knowlegable and helpful staff) with the idea of trying the Imagic 80 plus 20-60x HDF eyepiece.

Now this is a very nice combo except for slight purple fringeing of high contrast images at high magnification.

The same 20-60 eyepeice was set up in an ES80 GA .. problem solved. A beautiful bright image at all magnifications. Bugger - there goes another sixty quid!

As a (financial) compromise, I settled on the ES80 + 25x eyepiece and will be budgeting for the zoom later in the year.

Based on my (so far) limited use, this is one very nice 'scope.
 
Is is a nice scope. I can still get some colour fringing on on or two photo's ( only happened on one day of two different gulls so far ). It was not visible to the naked eye, only on the picture, I suppose it could have been the camera lens. Anyone know if this is possible?.
Canon Powershot A80.
Photo below
But don't let it put you off, its a nice scope!.
 

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wiltshirejohn said:
The same 20-60 eyepeice was set up in an ES80 GA .. problem solved. A beautiful bright image at all magnifications. Bugger - there goes another sixty quid!

Based on my (so far) limited use, this is one very nice 'scope.
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I do sympathise over the money...........
 
alan_rymer said:
Is is a nice scope. I can still get some colour fringing on on or two photo's ( only happened on one day of two different gulls so far ). It was visible to the naked eye, only on the picture, I suppose it could have been the camera lens. Anyone know if this is possible?.
Canon Powershot A80.
Photo below

That's the sort of thing I was seeing through the Imagic but not the ES.
The ES is crisp and clean.

BTW Alan, which eyepiece do you use?

John C.
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wiltshirejohn said:
alan_rymer said:
Is is a nice scope. I can still get some colour fringing on on or two photo's ( only happened on one day of two different gulls so far ). It was visible to the naked eye, only on the picture, I suppose it could have been the camera lens. Anyone know if this is possible?.
Canon Powershot A80.
Photo below

That's the sort of thing I was seeing through the Imagic but not the ES.
The ES is crisp and clean.

BTW Alan, which eyepiece do you use?

John C.
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John

My post should have read:
It was not visible to the naked eye, only on the picture,
I have added the "not" to my original post.

I had a x30 HDF but now use a 20-60HDF zoom on my ES80 GA all the time. The 30x is now an 18x on my 52mm Opticron MM2.
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