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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zzffnn" data-source="post: 3243466" data-attributes="member: 133374">Thank you Jay and Binastro.I will give the Orion/Forest Optics a try. It looks like the same product is also branded as Barska in USA.Thank you Jay. Your comparism between Pentax Papilio and the Orion is helpful to me. Do you think the apparent view size (when using Papilio with only one eye) and eye relief are also comparable? View field size and eye relief of Papilio II 6.5x is just enough for my eyes with glasses on - I probably won't be able to take anything smaller/shorter, unless I remove my glasses.Binastro, since you also have the Papilio II 6.5x, would you please also compare it with your Forest Optics zoom, in terms of apparent view field size (when using Papilio with only one eye) and eye relief? I read that Orion's zoom model has more CA than the fixed 10x model, but I can probably live with that if the amount is not huge. Is the zoom continuous from 10x to 25x (15x, 20x possible?) or are there only two discrete zoom levels at 10x and 25x? I do appreciate higher magnification for macro observation and can probably live with less optical quality.</blockquote>