DutchSparrow
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High quality for money spotting scope
Hi all, I really love this forum!
I'm looking for a new spotting scope to replace my Bynolyt T80ED. I'm not able to pay for the 1500+ top of the line scopes, so i'm looking at scopes with a max of 1000 Euro's with a high quality for money ratio. After a lot of reading I came to this shortlist.
- Vortex Viper 20-60x80
- Meopta Meopro S1 75 APO/HD
- Hawke Endurance ED 20-60x85/Frontier ED 20-60x85/Sapphire ED 20-60x82
- Opticron ES80 GA ED v3 Angles 20-60x80
- Bushnell Legend Ultra HD 20-60x80
- Vanguard Endeavor HD 82A 20-60x82
Which one of these would be the best in terms of optical quality (especially sharpness, light sensitivity, clarity, chromatic aberrations)? Build quality is less, but also important.
Do you have other suggestions that will be less than 1000 Euro and better than my shortlist?
Will this be a enough improvement over my Bynolyt T80 ED that is 8 years old, especially when zooming in? Or will I gain a lot more improvement if I up my budget to, say, 1200 euro's?
Thank you so much in advance for your help. Most of these scopes are not widely available in the Netherlands, let alone in the same store for a good comparison so I could use the extra input and info before checking scopes in the store.
Kind regards
Theo
Hi all, I really love this forum!
I'm looking for a new spotting scope to replace my Bynolyt T80ED. I'm not able to pay for the 1500+ top of the line scopes, so i'm looking at scopes with a max of 1000 Euro's with a high quality for money ratio. After a lot of reading I came to this shortlist.
- Vortex Viper 20-60x80
- Meopta Meopro S1 75 APO/HD
- Hawke Endurance ED 20-60x85/Frontier ED 20-60x85/Sapphire ED 20-60x82
- Opticron ES80 GA ED v3 Angles 20-60x80
- Bushnell Legend Ultra HD 20-60x80
- Vanguard Endeavor HD 82A 20-60x82
Which one of these would be the best in terms of optical quality (especially sharpness, light sensitivity, clarity, chromatic aberrations)? Build quality is less, but also important.
Do you have other suggestions that will be less than 1000 Euro and better than my shortlist?
Will this be a enough improvement over my Bynolyt T80 ED that is 8 years old, especially when zooming in? Or will I gain a lot more improvement if I up my budget to, say, 1200 euro's?
Thank you so much in advance for your help. Most of these scopes are not widely available in the Netherlands, let alone in the same store for a good comparison so I could use the extra input and info before checking scopes in the store.
Kind regards
Theo
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