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Old 09-12-2009, 01:53 PM
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Waxing_Gibbous (Peter)
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Rishi, you need help.

After some buying, selling and swapping I've finally wound up with:

APM 32mm "Superwide"
'Orion' 26mm Q70
TV 25 Plossl (first 'premium' EP I ever bought)
TV 20 T5 Nagler
TV 19 Panoptic
TV 16 Nagler
TV 13 Nagler
Pentax XW10 (still for sale!)
TMB 7mm Planetary (On its way!)
6 & 9 mm GSO plossls (nice clear, flat views)
Takahashi HiLe 5mm
(If you are part of the latest Masuyama craze-don't bother. The Takahashis are their equal and more)
Vixen LV 4mm
Celestron "Ultima" 2x barlow

I was really obsessed with EPs for a while. I've looked through literally hundreds of boutique, older, 'hand made by fairies' EPs, like Orthos, Kellners, Monocentrics, Supermonos, Abbes, Volcano tops, Flat tops etc etc. and discovered one thing:
Most out of production EPs are out of production for a reason: They're not as good as modern alternatives (IMHO). They have almost no eye relief and are difficult to use. Any effort you make finding and buying some "superior" EP from the past would have been much better spent observing.
Again (IMHO) any new Vixen, Televue, Pentax or Tak, will usually surpass the older EPs views and be much easier to use.
Don't sweat what you don't have and enjoy what you do! (Unless you actually collect them as a hobby - then just go nuts and have fun!)
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