Identify kowa scope? Help (1 Viewer)

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johan35

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• Jun 14, 2007

• #1

Hi
I`m new here and with scopes. I`m mostly using my dlsr, but now i got the opportunity to lay my hands on an old kowa very cheap, but, i cant find anything that tells me wich model this is, and therefor i cant find any kind of info about it!
So here it is, hoping some of you does recognize this one, maybe someone could tell me about the performances of it. This one comes with a 20x eyepiece.

Regards Johan

 

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johan35

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• Jun 14, 2007

• #2

Come on, someone must have seen something like this.... or is so rare(=bad??) so there are so few of them!

 

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Matt_RTH

Well-known member

• Jun 14, 2007

• #3

Looks similar to eekbay item 280121735369. My local Audubon has one like this. Don't know anything about it. These older ones are built like tanks but the one I looked through was optically moderate. Nothing to complain about but not up to a nice 80mm ED.

Newer models can have better glass, better QC, better coatings. Can you test it?

Try to measure the objective. If it's 50mm, I'd personally pass. If it's 60, then it may be a keeper.

Very cheap is relative. It's much easier to find used bins than used spotters.

 

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johan35

Member

• Jun 14, 2007

• #4

Thanks for your reply.

Well, i`m looking for scope to identify birds on longer distance, to see if i should move close enuoght to make som good pics with my 400 mm lens.

But, i am ready to get a kowa tsn 601 with a 30x eyepiece, and the price of this one is less than 10% of that combination, so its no big deal really what happens, but i just wanted to know if this was something well known, maybe useful for this. I have found very little information about the older sec hand scopes on the web, maybe because of optical performences, that should have been improved lately!

 

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johan35

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• Jun 19, 2007

• #5

Ok, end of story!

I bought it, and to my big surprise this was an ok scope for beeing 50 mm, the size is so small, and light weight, so that opens up for getting a 80mm scope instead of an 66 mm, and use this one for photo backup, and the 80 for just watching, if i need to carry the equipment long into the nature.

But still it doesnt say anything about model on it, just a serialnr and the brand!

Thanks for your help and interest here on birdforum! I`m gonna hang around once in a while!

johan

 

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Curre32

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• Oct 15, 2007

• #6

Ts9

i saw a simmualar on ebay. The model was ts9.

Ebay nr:http://cgi.ebay.de/TOP-KOWA-Spektiv...ryZ37471QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem