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Old 15-02-2007, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Miaplacidus View Post
Is this a silence that speaks volumes? Are zooms still unpopular? Could it be that nobody uses one?
All the zooms incl the pricey ones go very narrow in the AFOV at the low power end which kind of defeats their purpose for general use. The only use I see for zoom eps is at high powers, for observing planets in a tracking scope, where magnification is important but FOV is not.
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