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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kunibert" data-source="post: 3435310" data-attributes="member: 138947">Henry, I don't have the scope any more, I had to send it back. About the performance: I also had a Kowa Prominar TSN 883 which delivers stunning images. It's pictures are really sharp, crisp and brilliant. The Zeiss Conquest Gavia 85, which is cheaper, offers a very good image but was not quite on the same level. I could see a little chromatic aberration. Not much, but it was there. Many would not see the difference, but experients users would notice it. As far as I understood it, the Zeiss Conquest Gavia 85 is not meant to be a successor of the Zeiss Victory Diascope 85, but belongs to a seperate product line in the upper middle class. Compared to the Victory Diascope it is cheaper and offers a smaller zoom factor with the kit-eyepiece.  Compared to a Pentax PF-80EDa I would rate the performance of a Zeiss 'Conquest Gavia 85 to be on the same level. It is a lightweight spotting scope with a very good image quality and I like the T2 thread at the eyepiece, because it makes digiscoping easier. Buy a cover for your smartphone, glue a T2 Adapter at it and there you go. The value for money is very good.Some more info from Zeiss about this scope:<a href="http://www.zeiss.com/corporate/en_de/zeiss-corporate-newsroom/news/press-releases.html?id=ZEISS-Conquest-Gavia-85" target="_blank">http://www.zeiss.com/corporate/en_de/zeiss-corporate-newsroom/news/press-releases.html?id=ZEISS-Conquest-Gavia-85</a>Tom</blockquote>

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