Hi guys 'n gals, I'm hoping you can help me out by identifying this spotting scope! I love/hate mystery buys, but couldn't pull the trigger on this one just yet. My phone camera, my description, and the condition of the scope aren't going to make it easy (they're all crap - Sorry!).
It was at my local swap meet today being sold by one of my favorite "random junk" vendors. I know Leupolds can have cosmetic gold rings near the objective, as does this scope, but the build quality and image quality did not seem to agree with that brand name.
The finish is sticky and black (it reminds me of some older and/or worn Sigma/Quantaray camera lenses that I've handled). There were no markings anywhere on the scope aside from the zoom range (the sticker for which was misaligned but I think it read 20x-60x [I know the maximum was 60x for sure; couldn't read the other side]).
The objective was probably 50mm or so. The optics were clean and clear with dark blue coatings that reminded me of some Russian optics I've seen before. The tripod mount looked kinda nice. The eyecup is collapsible (seen collapsed here) and there's a thread (presumably for adapters or caps) at the base of the eyepiece. The scope also has a little peep sight built in (as seen on the top of the scope in the image provided). The overall length was maybe 13 or 14 inches.
Zooming (controlled by the grip near the ocular) and focusing worked smoothly, but as I said before, it wasn't very nice to look through aside from some very generous eye relief. At maximum zoom the image was dark and mushy. When I could get a clean image, contrast was good, but there was a significant amount of color fringing (green/blue/purple).
Any ideas as to what it could be? Is it worth salvaging/repairing (I've worked on camera lenses in the past)? Thanks for any information/speculation you can provide. Yes I did try a reverse Google Images search... It didn't go well.
It was at my local swap meet today being sold by one of my favorite "random junk" vendors. I know Leupolds can have cosmetic gold rings near the objective, as does this scope, but the build quality and image quality did not seem to agree with that brand name.
The finish is sticky and black (it reminds me of some older and/or worn Sigma/Quantaray camera lenses that I've handled). There were no markings anywhere on the scope aside from the zoom range (the sticker for which was misaligned but I think it read 20x-60x [I know the maximum was 60x for sure; couldn't read the other side]).
The objective was probably 50mm or so. The optics were clean and clear with dark blue coatings that reminded me of some Russian optics I've seen before. The tripod mount looked kinda nice. The eyecup is collapsible (seen collapsed here) and there's a thread (presumably for adapters or caps) at the base of the eyepiece. The scope also has a little peep sight built in (as seen on the top of the scope in the image provided). The overall length was maybe 13 or 14 inches.
Zooming (controlled by the grip near the ocular) and focusing worked smoothly, but as I said before, it wasn't very nice to look through aside from some very generous eye relief. At maximum zoom the image was dark and mushy. When I could get a clean image, contrast was good, but there was a significant amount of color fringing (green/blue/purple).
Any ideas as to what it could be? Is it worth salvaging/repairing (I've worked on camera lenses in the past)? Thanks for any information/speculation you can provide. Yes I did try a reverse Google Images search... It didn't go well.