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@StarLane, you're lucky. I considered getting an XW 30mm but never did. Now it's no longer available except on the 2nd hand market for big $s. It's probably going to become a collectible.
The Pano 27mm is a decent, very good, EP for the scope but not brilliant (I know because it was my widefield workhorse EP with the same scope for several years). An XW 30mm is something else. But it is a lot heavier and definitely not comparable to the pano 27mm, which is more comparable to the 1.25" XWs i.t.o. weight. The XW 30mm is more like a Nagler T5 31mm in weight and size if memory serves (which it might not after so many years). Optically I prefer the XW 30mm even to the T5 31mm. The TVs work best with a coma corrector. For some reason the XW-30, XW-10,7,5 do not seem to need it.
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