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Digiscoping

Postby quetzal » Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:21 pm

Hi,
What do you think about digiscoping? What are the best telescopes to do so. Zeiss is too expensive, Swaroski.... Kowa...Vortex... Thank and best regards. quetzal :D

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Re: Digiscoping

Postby marjolijn1957 » Thu Nov 08, 2012 2:41 am

I want to start with digiscoping too. I've been to a professiolnal with lots of experience with telescopes, binoculars etc..
He advised me the A brands for this. Swarokski is very good even as Leica is.
Its depends of the results you want. It's a little bit difficult for me to explain it in English.
But perhaps you find more information on this site

http://www.swarovskioptik.com/en/digiscoping_principles

I know Swarovski introduced some new version in September this year here in Holland.
At this moment there is a possibilty to buy an occasion of the older types. They are refurbised and technical 100%.
But a lot cheaper as new ones.

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Re: Digiscoping

Postby quetzal » Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:04 am

Hi,
We've only tried the Swaroski stm 80mm with 20x to 60x telescope, a sign at 30meters was very clear. With the Vortex not Razor. the image was darker than Swaroski. We will give you later other informations. quetzal :D

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Re: Digiscoping

Postby marjolijn1957 » Fri Nov 09, 2012 4:34 am

You can not compare a Vortex , not Razor, with a Swaroski. The Razor costs about he half of the price of a Swarovski. I think you can imagine the difference in quality.

Cheaper telescope often have a lot of chromatic abberation.
This is very technical and difficult to explain for me. So I search for an article in English and foud this.
http://toothwalker.org/optics/chromatic.html

The quality of the telsecoops depends of the quality of the glass wich is used, as you know perhaps. The better the quality the less chromatic abberation

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