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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
It's a good thing really that there arent more of these size binoviewers around. Can you imagine how much trouble scope suppliers would have trying to sell any scope smaller than 16" after someone has looked through binos like that.  |
Thats a very good point. I built a pair of 8" Binewts in 1986 for Halleys Comet , and used them for 10 yrs before they simply wore out from bashing around on bush roads in the back of my van. I always used to say that if I had to chooe between the 8" Binewt and a 20 " mono on the Desert Island, I 'd go the Binewts because the experience had so much more of a feeling of quality viewing than just `brute force' of a larger monocular. I've done extensive testing of binoviewers against true binoculars and they are convenient but inferior in a number of ways . I like to think that the many binoviewers on the market are re-educating observers to think `two -eyes' and the hey- day of binocular Newtonians is yet to come
Mark