yakyakgoose
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I have a Nikon 60 Ed iii with the 20-60x eye piece and was wondering how this compares to the Nikon EDG's or New Vortex Razors. Has this older tech been surpassed significantly by the newer generation of scopes?
I have a Nikon 60 Ed iii with the 20-60x eye piece and was wondering how this compares to the Nikon EDG's or New Vortex Razors. Has this older tech been surpassed significantly by the newer generation of scopes?
I have a Nikon 60 Ed iii with the 20-60x eye piece and was wondering how this compares to the Nikon EDG's or New Vortex Razors. Has this older tech been surpassed significantly by the newer generation of scopes?
I have an old Nikon Fieldscope III, non-ED version, coupled with a 30x wide MC eyepiece. It is excellent. I imagine the ED version is even better.
...I don't think I'll change for the foreseeable future.
The only thing you might want to do is get *one* of the WW eyepieces for all those occasions when you want a really wide field of view. One of the 24x eyepieces, either the "normal" one or the DS, would do nicely...
I have an EDIII with a 30x MC wide eyepiece and I think that it is an excellent scope, especially at the prices which it commands these days secondhand. My only real criticism is that the tripod foot is a long way forward which makes it rather back-heavy and unbalanced. A good tripod head with a sliding plate helps a lot. Unfortunately, I don't use mine very often now as I suffer from bad joint pain, so I take out my much lighter ED50 instead.
Ron
You've put your finger on the major weakness of the EDIII, it really needs a good tripod and head to show what it can do. That automatically puts it into the heavyweight space, where the big 80+mm models shine.