Please share your experiences with the MEP-30-60W eyepiece (1 Viewer)

[mattbush]

I'm really enjoying my Monarch 60ED-A with the standard eyepiece, and now plan to buy a Monarch 82ED-A once I find a good deal on a refurbished copy. Can anyone share their experience birding with the MEP-30-60W relative to the standard eyepiece? I could only find one related thread in this forum and it didn't include any observations from use in the field. Many thanks in advance!

 

[henry link]

Hi Matt,

I don't have long term experience with the 30-60x zoom, but I did evaluate one in post #99 of this thread:

Monarch 82ED, a Perfect Ten

I recently spent a pleasant few hours evaluating a scope that exceeded my expectations in nearly every way. The Nikon Monarch 82ED has been around for over 2 years now, but it doesn’t seem to have made much of an impression in the market or been much reviewed or discussed in optics forums. A...

www.birdforum.net

You might also want to read, starting on page 6, post #116, about adapting the Baader Hyperion MK IV zoom eyepiece to the Monarch ED. IMO it's a more attractive alternative with a wider zoom range (21-63x in the 82) and only a little narrower AFOV over the 30-60x magnification range (57º-68º).

Henry

 

[RubyRobin]

Did you end up getting the wide zoom? I’d love to hear about your experience if you did.

 

[mattbush]

Not yet - but I will definitely post about my experiences after I do.

 

[RubyRobin]

I received my 30-60x wide ep yesterday. The rain prevented me from getting out, but I did quickly learn that the ep is so much wider than the 20-60 and the 30w (w/reticle) that the Novagrade phone adapter does not work the the 30-60 ep. Darn.