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Message: <blockquote data-quote="giosblue" data-source="post: 3323939" data-attributes="member: 134930">When I Bought my Optolyth, it was a choice between the Kowa TSN3/4, I choose the Optolyth, mainly because I had some Opto bins which I was pleased with.  Good scope the 4 and with a 30x should give really good results.Personally I use an angled scope, much better on a tripod. My tripod is an Slik, with the old style friction head.That's probably the next upgrade when I've finally decided on the scope.I think the old top  scopes are very good, but the zooms that were around then were poor. New stuff is better though, but not by the margin you might think.I've just been looking through the Opticron with the 30x, sharpest image I've ever seen from a scope.Just to give you an idea how good it is, I've had the Kowa for a couple of weeks, so I have a feel for how good it is. However, when I put the 30x on the ES80, I thought, "Bloody hell, that's sharp"</blockquote>