Kite APC 60 17-35x WA stabilised spotting scope (1 Viewer)

[Grando]

It'd be interesting to use on a pelagic...

 

[DRodrigues]

BTX eye pieces with Harpia zoom should keep costs down.

A binoviewer with 58mm aperture probably wouldn't produce bright images! Also would be strange to hold... A true binoversion seems better.
Not sure if the Harpia zoom system is economic to produce.

 

[DRodrigues]

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But I'm not a younger birder. And my phone (XCover 6 Pro) has got a removable battery.

Plus I don't think the average mobile will last as long as a scope. It would have been easy enough to make the battery removable. It would even have been easy enough to use a standard size battery, just like Canon did in all their IS binoculars. Kite didn't. So my choice is not to get one.

Hermann

I'm not younger also...
I should had written that "most" smart phones don't have removable battery... Another detail to look in a future purchase but I don't spend so much money on mobile phone as you...
I also prefer standard size batteries, just saying that younger birds probably don't have that requirement.
For me a, with these mags, I would prefer a binoversion... My current binocular is a Canon18x50 IS...

 

[etudiant]

A binoviewer with 58mm aperture probably wouldn't produce bright images! Also would be strange to hold... A true binoversion seems better.
Not sure if the Harpia zoom system is economic to produce.

Agree that 58mm aperture would yield a dim binoviewer scope.
However, would it not be relatively inexpensive to adapt a stabilized big camera zoom lens with a binoviewer?

 

[DRodrigues]

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However, would it not be relatively inexpensive to adapt a stabilized big camera zoom lens with a binoviewer?

I have been there but the results weren't the best...
However, just remembered that with the use of the LBV might be easier.
Nikon could easily do it but I wonder what are their thoughts about spotting scopes with binoviewers since still didn't produce any...

PS: - more than 30 years ago, my first scope was a Nikon ED60 20-45x, presently I'm using a Swaro STX115 (30-70x and 50-120x), and developed a way of using a binoviewer with it - 56-129x, using the X115 zoom, but with more 5.8% of TFOV of the X115+extender at 50x and AFOV similar to the X115 at 70x!!!

 

[etudiant]

I have been there but the results weren't the best...
However, just remembered that with the use of the LBV might be easier.
Nikon could easily do it but I wonder what are their thoughts about spotting scopes with binoviewers since still didn't produce any...

PS: - more than 30 years ago, my first scope was a Nikon ED60 20-45x, presently I'm using a Swaro STX115 (30-70x and 50-120x), and developed a way of using a binoviewer with it - 56-129x, using the X115 zoom, but with more 5.8% of TFOV of the X115+extender at 50x and AFOV similar to the X115 at 70x!!!

Fascinating work, getting an effective binoviewer setup.
Am not surprised Nikon is AWOL in this space, they have reduced their sport optics presence in recent years.
For now, that leaves the community dependent for optical innovation on the work of skilled amateurs such as yourself.
Hopefully the new Kite stabilized scope is a harbinger of a wider trend to innovation from below in the sport optics market.