While out birding today I was asked by a fellow birder to help him out with the identification of a bird.
I couldnt find it through my pentax pf60 scope, so looked through his nikon ed82 scope as he already had it locked in on the bird.
I was very surprised that although roughly the same magnification eyepieces were being used on both scopes[he had the 30x, I had the 14mm which I believe is around 28x], the quality of the image through the 82mm nikon was noticably poorer than through my 60mm pentax????
The nikon was to be one of the scopes I was thinking of for a possible upgrade at a later date, but now I dont know.
I think I will now arrange to trial both the nikon ed82 and pentax pf80 together at rother valley optics, and decide from that.
theres quite a price difference between the two
http://www.rothervalleyoptics.co.uk/nikon-fieldscope-ed82-angled-spotting-scope-body_d3389.html
http://www.rothervalleyoptics.co.uk/pentax-pf-80ed-a-spotting-scope-body-only_d3361.html
I couldnt find it through my pentax pf60 scope, so looked through his nikon ed82 scope as he already had it locked in on the bird.
I was very surprised that although roughly the same magnification eyepieces were being used on both scopes[he had the 30x, I had the 14mm which I believe is around 28x], the quality of the image through the 82mm nikon was noticably poorer than through my 60mm pentax????
The nikon was to be one of the scopes I was thinking of for a possible upgrade at a later date, but now I dont know.
I think I will now arrange to trial both the nikon ed82 and pentax pf80 together at rother valley optics, and decide from that.
theres quite a price difference between the two
http://www.rothervalleyoptics.co.uk/nikon-fieldscope-ed82-angled-spotting-scope-body_d3389.html
http://www.rothervalleyoptics.co.uk/pentax-pf-80ed-a-spotting-scope-body-only_d3361.html
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