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Swift Apollo MK2 (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Simon S
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Simon S
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Well they arrived today and they are mint apart from being well out of alignment. There is no evidence of a drop so I removed the oculars and prism covers to have a look in side. The prism shelf screws where tight but the smaller set screws had wound them selves out.Poor inspection?
Once aligned the image is disappointing. Image is fairly wide at 446ft at 1000 yards and seem to suffer astigmatism centre field going off quickly at the edges.Light gathering is not what an 8x30 is good at but these are dimmer than usual. Build is good and this seems to be a very late model in the porro range by Swift.
So although they look new, the performance is well down on the Mk1 version.
Once aligned the image is disappointing. Image is fairly wide at 446ft at 1000 yards and seem to suffer astigmatism centre field going off quickly at the edges.Light gathering is not what an 8x30 is good at but these are dimmer than usual. Build is good and this seems to be a very late model in the porro range by Swift.
So although they look new, the performance is well down on the Mk1 version.
