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Originally Posted by Wavytone
Sorry I laughed out loud when I saw the image of shingles and Paolini claimed distortion was "minimal". The amount of pincushion distortion was shocking for a 62 degree eyepiece, and frankly the rest of Paoloni's review is superficial unquantified rubbish, ie worthless.
At least a side by side comparison with established premium eyepieces should have been provided that looks into th following with actual measurements from an optical bench:
A) sharpness off axis as a result of field curvature, spherical, coma and astigmatism, given the field curvature and distortion of the test telescope which also matters; Paolini didn't bother to mention the scope used;
B) lateral chromatic error near the edge of the field of view,
C) spherical aberration at the exit pupil, aka the "jellybean" or blackout problem affected certain eyepieces, notably Naglers;
D) eye relief as measured on an optical bench; Paolini clearly just takes the Televue data without any attempt to verify it by direct measurements.
Anyone with XW's, LVW's or nikons should keep them. No reason to switch.
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Sorry Wavytone but I must disagree with you in the strongest possible terms
In my opinion this review of the Televue DeLite is, from my own perspective, the best thing to come along in the past two years!!!
I earnestly hope everyone in the Australian AA community reads this review and start buying DeLites and selling their old eyepieces.
I am especially hoping this will extend to folks who own Takahashi LE's and Takahashi Orthos as I would love to get my hands on a Takahashi LE12.5mm and LE24mm
:rofl :