Ivan,
This thread from Cloudy Nights eyepiece forum covers the subject of XW availability.
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthre...page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1/vc/1
Henry
You know I am really new to digiscoping... I am crawling, actually. I don´t even have a scope to begin with... ( I am ordering it yet)
I just got fascinated by digiscoping a few months ago... and I am ordering optic products(including digiscoping now... ).
When I saw the pentax scope I was amazed. Interchangeable eyepiece. The best eyepiece(XW). Perfect models 65, 80, 100. And the scopes are beautiful.
(Believe it or not... my resistance against nikon 82ED is because it is .... ugly)
But it is being hard to keep up with Pentax, honestly.
It is like if Pentax don´t really want me as an enthusiast of them.
First the 100ED is unavailable(the one I wanted the most). It is impossible to buy a new PF-100ED.
Next the XW´s are discontinued.
Also they don´t offer proper adapter.
Also they don´t offer proper information and charts about their digiscoping assembly.
To make things worst they don´t offer good point and shot cameras...
How am I supposed to enter digiscoping with a company like that???
It seems like they don´t really want new costumers. It seems like they do things to put potential costumers in troublesome situations.
That 100 Pentax scope with XW and adapter+ PS looks beautiful in the photo and I fell in love with it at the moment I saw it. But nothing of that is available, and what is available is in risk of discontinuity...
...Pentax seems careless. And I do not feel comfortable in trust in their careless behavior as a brand for my start at digiscoping.
Just my opinion.
I am sorry but pentax made everything for me to jump into the solid Nikon Digiscoping assembly or the Kowa+Canon combo. As I trust in nikon binos(and so their scopes must be good) and I trust in Canon cameras(I have Canon´s cameras for years)
(About Digiscoping... Pentax is signing its name in the b-list. And I don´t know why, because still that PF-100ED+XW looks beautiful to me)