NIKON FIELD SCOPE II - 60mm ED - Thoughts Please? (1 Viewer)

What are peoples thoughts on a NIKON FIELD SCOPE II - 60mm ED?

I'm just looking into starting Digiscoping - What camera would be best suited with this scope & would I require anything else to get it going?

How much would you expect to pay for one second hand?

Cheers

Des :t:

I can tell you that the Fieldscope III 60 is a great little scope. I use mine for birding but do some digiscoping with it. If I was going to do a lot of digiscoping, a 82 mm would probably be a good investment.

I've been using a Contax U4R without any bracket / cable release but as set up, it's not great. I've been watching the thread on the Nikon P series cameras (1,2,3,4) and am considering this for "my" Christmas present. You might want to look at that thread.

Nikon have come out with a 40X eyepiece for digiscoping that works with an adapter for the P series cameras. Hate to give up my 30XWA, I love it.

I had this scope in the past and I regret replacing it with the 82ED. The latter is bigger, heavier and I'm not sure at all it is optcally better.

Des! said:

How much would you expect to pay for one second hand?

Cheers

Des :t:

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Hi Des,

Good starter scope, excellent optics, Cley Spy have one s/h for £295 inc 30x eyepiece. Agree with Dave, the ED82 would be better for hardcore digiscoping but for birding & occasional d/s it would be fine. The current fieldscopes are waterproof & have improved multicoating, but for a first scope under 300 quid the ED2 would be great.

ATB,

John.