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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jalethbridge" data-source="post: 2198614" data-attributes="member: 54647"><p>I had the opportunity to use the 20-60, 30, and 25-50 on a seawatch recently. By default I was using the 30x, which I find superb, however when small Storm Petrels came by, I found myself wanting more magnification. I swapped to my 20-60 zoom and after having used the 30x all morning, found the relatively narrow fov very disappointing. My neighbour at that point was using his 30x, so gave me his 25-50 to use.  It was excellent, the fov was almost equivalent to the 30x, but I was able to zoom up as well. The price of £500 makes it a non-starter though, to sell both my 20-60, 30x, and still have to stump up cash for the new zoom makes no sense whatsover. Would rather stick with what I have and have a backup eyepiece in case something goes wrong with one of them. And the 30x is addictingly good.</p></blockquote><p></p>