walterb
Active member
I received my Yukon 6-100x100 Spotting scope today!
This will be a very quick review because I plan to put the scope through the paces over the next few weeks, and at that point I’ll be able to give you my full opinion.
In a Nutshell I bought this scope on Ebay for $199 as a Demo/Refurbished model from a company that sells Russian made Optics. It has a full factory warranty on it, and a good return policy so I figured I had nothing to loose.
The scope is very light. It seems to be made of plastic. I read one review that said it was bulky and that person wouldn’t want to have to carry it around. In my opinion my wife’s purse is heavier and more bulky than this scope in its carrying case.
The optics are about what you would expect for a medium range spotting scope. The scope is pretty bright, but has some really bad purple fringing/(Chromatic Aberrations ) issues.
The camera I used is a Powershot IXY 320 (Powershot S230). The camera adapter was backordered so all the shots are with the scope on a medium/light duty tripod and I’m hand holding the camera.
I did not Photoshop the photos in anyway. (i.e., color, sharpness, etc.). I only used Photoshop to label them and optimize them for the web using a medium/high setting.
The 1x shots are just with the camera to give you a baseline of the field of view to the naked eye.
In this set of photos I am standing in a park on top of a bluff in Alton Illinois, overlooking the Mississippi River and Downtown St. Louis Missouri is about 20 miles in the distance.
In a nutshell, So far I like this scope for what I paid for it. I do believe it would make a great scope for finding bullet holes in targets at over 200 yards, but as a nature scope the purple fringing can be annoying.
The second set of photos is of one of the few birds that would sit still today long enough for me to take his photo.
Once the camera adapter arrives I’ll put the scope through the paces and see how good the photography is with this scope. I’ll also do some astrophotography then as well (at least as much as the Powershot camera will allow).
Thanks.
This will be a very quick review because I plan to put the scope through the paces over the next few weeks, and at that point I’ll be able to give you my full opinion.
In a Nutshell I bought this scope on Ebay for $199 as a Demo/Refurbished model from a company that sells Russian made Optics. It has a full factory warranty on it, and a good return policy so I figured I had nothing to loose.
The scope is very light. It seems to be made of plastic. I read one review that said it was bulky and that person wouldn’t want to have to carry it around. In my opinion my wife’s purse is heavier and more bulky than this scope in its carrying case.
The optics are about what you would expect for a medium range spotting scope. The scope is pretty bright, but has some really bad purple fringing/(Chromatic Aberrations ) issues.
The camera I used is a Powershot IXY 320 (Powershot S230). The camera adapter was backordered so all the shots are with the scope on a medium/light duty tripod and I’m hand holding the camera.
I did not Photoshop the photos in anyway. (i.e., color, sharpness, etc.). I only used Photoshop to label them and optimize them for the web using a medium/high setting.
The 1x shots are just with the camera to give you a baseline of the field of view to the naked eye.
In this set of photos I am standing in a park on top of a bluff in Alton Illinois, overlooking the Mississippi River and Downtown St. Louis Missouri is about 20 miles in the distance.
In a nutshell, So far I like this scope for what I paid for it. I do believe it would make a great scope for finding bullet holes in targets at over 200 yards, but as a nature scope the purple fringing can be annoying.
The second set of photos is of one of the few birds that would sit still today long enough for me to take his photo.
Once the camera adapter arrives I’ll put the scope through the paces and see how good the photography is with this scope. I’ll also do some astrophotography then as well (at least as much as the Powershot camera will allow).
Thanks.