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Old 04-02-2015, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by mtfreestyler View Post
Also, if you can is there anything that a beginner should know about the advantages/disadvantages of Barlow vs Powermate?
One thing I discovered about the Powermate (which is an excellent piece of kit by the way) is that getting the right Powermate-to-sensor distance is important.
I tried getting away without the Televue camera adapter using an old 2" camera adapter I had but couldn't achieve focus any which way. As soon as I puchased the TV camera adapter for the powermate (in my case a 4x) it worked a treat. I think the issue I had was being unable to get the camera sensor close enough to the back of the powermate.
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