Timedrifter
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I have the 883 with which I purchased a 25x LER eyepiece. I purchased this eyepiece with the sole purpose of digiscoping. I have been trying different cameras with it (a620; LX3; C-5050; F30) and have not been particularly happy with the results. Yesterday I recieved a secondhand 20-60 zoom and did some tests late in the afternoon when we eventually had a little sunshine. The difference in quality was immediately apparent! I shot a few off at 20x and finally I was getting the image quality I expected from the scope.
This is the second time I have made a similar discovery. One of my first digiscoping scopes was a TSN3. One day, purely out of interest, I tried the 20-60x zoom and again was amazed to find it produced far better quality images than the fixed mags I'd been using. So, although for general birding the 30x is probably the best, it would appear that yet again the zoom is best for digiscoping in terms of quality. I will be doing a lot more testing today, particularly with higher scope mags just to see what's achievable.
I'd be very interested to hear of anybody elses experiences with either of these eyepieces (25xLER and zoom), particularly someone who owns both and has compared them.
Max
This is the second time I have made a similar discovery. One of my first digiscoping scopes was a TSN3. One day, purely out of interest, I tried the 20-60x zoom and again was amazed to find it produced far better quality images than the fixed mags I'd been using. So, although for general birding the 30x is probably the best, it would appear that yet again the zoom is best for digiscoping in terms of quality. I will be doing a lot more testing today, particularly with higher scope mags just to see what's achievable.
I'd be very interested to hear of anybody elses experiences with either of these eyepieces (25xLER and zoom), particularly someone who owns both and has compared them.
Max