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Originally Posted by Starkler
On the question of quality control, Televue are not perfect.
The 24mm panoptic I bought last year had a malformed filter thread on the bottom of the barrel. Apparently Im not the only one to have had this problem. Thankfully the dealer who sold it swapped out the barrel for me after a lot of cajoling.
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This is very true Geoff. Televue are certainly very good, both in quality control and optical design. They are NOT PERFECT, I am yet to find anyone that is, with Zeiss being the closest. Unfortunately there are many people out there, both Americans and otherwise, who have a misconception that because something has a "Televue" or "Nagler" label, it must be perfect. Not the case. There are several companies who produce some outstanding products, but they do not have the market share, hence word of mouth recommendation, or advertising exposure of Televue, hence they are not well known and often not recommended. Evaluated objectively, their products are just as good and in some cases better. I saw a classic example recently. Someone posted on another forum that the eyepiece "was a Nagler so must be good". Unfortunately that's a long way from the truth. I have used a few Nagler/televue eyepieces over the years which I thought only average with many faults. I have also used several Televue/Nagler eyepieces which are superb, without fault. They are not all created equal.
It's unfortunate that not everyone evaluates ALL of Televues products objectively based on specific performance aspects, from an unbiased point of view, as opposed to reputation.
CS-John B