prairiemerlin
registered guy
Hello everyone,
Wednesday I received my new Zeiss Diascope 65 T* FL, along with the zoom eyepiece. The body and the eyepiece cost $1400, :eek!: but it was worth it. The first thing I looked into was the quality of image at 15x. I had read several places that the edges of the image at 15x were blurry. I did note some blurriness at the very edges, but not nearly as bad as I had expected it to be. I may have not noticed the blurry edges had I not read about them beforehand. The blurriness disappeared at high powers. That out of the way, I started testing it out on the yard birds. I'd simply find a songbird with my eye, find it at 15x, and then zoom in for mind-blowing views. In contrast to my old scope, the images were very sharp, bright and vivid. Later we went to my local patch to try it out more. At my local patch, a boardwalk with a high railing runs through a small marsh. While I could see over the railing fine while I was looking at a bird more than 20 feet away, anything closer I was unable to scope until I found the knob on the side of my scope. After twisting this knob, I could turn the scope so I look through horizontally. With this feature I can set the tripod higher, but it is very hard to point when turned horizontally. I am very happy with my new Zeiss, and I am glad I got it. (It is much, much better than my old one)
Wednesday I received my new Zeiss Diascope 65 T* FL, along with the zoom eyepiece. The body and the eyepiece cost $1400, :eek!: but it was worth it. The first thing I looked into was the quality of image at 15x. I had read several places that the edges of the image at 15x were blurry. I did note some blurriness at the very edges, but not nearly as bad as I had expected it to be. I may have not noticed the blurry edges had I not read about them beforehand. The blurriness disappeared at high powers. That out of the way, I started testing it out on the yard birds. I'd simply find a songbird with my eye, find it at 15x, and then zoom in for mind-blowing views. In contrast to my old scope, the images were very sharp, bright and vivid. Later we went to my local patch to try it out more. At my local patch, a boardwalk with a high railing runs through a small marsh. While I could see over the railing fine while I was looking at a bird more than 20 feet away, anything closer I was unable to scope until I found the knob on the side of my scope. After twisting this knob, I could turn the scope so I look through horizontally. With this feature I can set the tripod higher, but it is very hard to point when turned horizontally. I am very happy with my new Zeiss, and I am glad I got it. (It is much, much better than my old one)