Its quite funny to see how you are getting on.....you seem just like me....an amateur
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I was like a kid with a new toy when mine arrived and did pretty much the same as you.....took shots of squirrels in the garden.
From the photos it looks pretty good and the tripods a Manfrotto, which are usually good also. The package looks impressive.
I take shots with an old IPhone 5s ... I took this today....bit blurry.uu
How did you down load more than one photo....I can only ever get one at a time to appear?
Regards Ian
Thanks! It is pretty bad, the way I get excited about new (to me) equipment. I checked my phone 10 times this morning, just to see the tracking progress. 3
Your photo looks really good. I don't know what it is, but the photo is great.
I am going to have a hard time concentrating at work on Monday, because my PhoneSkope stuff should arrive by then.
Regarding multiple photos, I am not sure I can explain it exactly. I go to "Attach Files" and click on the "Manage Attachments" button. Once there, I go to "Browse", and click there. I select my file, and then click "Upload". Once the file uploads, the window for the file should say "No file selected". I then click "Browse" and start the process over again. Once I have all of the files uploaded, I scroll to the bottom of the "Manage Attachments" window, and click "Close this Window".
I hope that helps you. Feel free to post more photos.
Hi,
seems you got a good deal - congratulations. The images look sharp enough at 60x. Let us know how the star test looks like.
The images look about as yellow as I remember the one example I tried. On the other hand you can correct it in images and while observing the brain tends to adapt after a few seconds...
The objective lens does not look like it needs cleaning - you know the astronomer joke about how to best clean optical surfaces and the answer being not.
If you have astro EPs, there is an adapter available to use 1.25" ones in the diascope. The question is, if all come to focus though, as spotting scopes tend to have a bit less focus travel than your average astro scope.
https://www.teleskop-express.de/sho...ZEISS-Diascope-Okularbajonett-auf-1-1-4-.html
I probably would first try to get a better tripod - the one shown looks a bit flimsy and is maybe better used for a small camera. A good tripod will also shake a little when you are manipulating the focus at high magnification, but it will be steady again in less than a second.
Joachim
Joachim, thank you for the observations. I THINK I did get a decent deal. I did notice some internal dust, that I did not see at first. Also, there is a minuscule scratch on the ep eye-lens. That was disappointing. It is barely discernible, but now that I know it is there, it just bugs me. Totally invisible unless the lighting is perfect. No effect on the image.
I wonder if I could send it to Zeiss for cleaning. (?)
Yes, the image seems to be tinted yellow. It does not bother me, but might bother some. Sometimes I prefer this over a more bluish tint. It is early, so I am not sure how I feel about it.
Thank you for the link to the adapter. I will probably pursue that. Maybe not immediately, but soon. I have a Celestron C102F, so I use that pretty frequently, but something as light as this scope would be very convenient.
Speaking of its weight, I found specs at BH Photo that said the scope was 3.9#. However, I do not know if that includes the ep or not. I will have to look into that a bit.
The tripod and head are the Manfrotto 055XB and 128RC. From what I could find, they are rated for 9# and 8# respectively. Not sure what the rule of thumb is for weight capacity ratings and real-life capacity. Based on these weights, would you consider this tripod/mount sufficient for this scope? It doesn't vibrate horribly at all, but more than I expected. It is minimal enough that I am not in a rush to replace it, but just wondered about your opinion.
For anyone that is interested, I found that a Fujinon 16x70 objective cover, somehow, fits the Diascope objective. I happened to find one that had been lost. I previously sold the binoculars, so the cover has been in a bag of miscellaneous caps and plugs for awhile. I also found a random Swift bino cap for the ep.
The Kowa case had cat hair, or some kind of animal hair, all over it. Well, not covering it, but enough that it was obvious. I swept it, and cleaned it as thoroughly as possible. When I posted the photo of the cap, I see that one hair escaped me. :C