This is all great info. A 17mm is one I'm narrowing in on as first choice and still processing the combinations of whether to go Barlow or not, I see both sides but I still have plenty of time too and many options and sums to consider. May go with one first even and a gift voucher towards another and see if family would like to also get small gift vouchers type of thing.
For a laugh in regard to your comments on climatising; ofcourse it was me that paniced when James first set it up. Since it had been years of my overtime and any extra money (so as not to take away from our normal financial reasponsibilities I contributed to) it took me awhile to save so I was keen for it to be his dream one, with his interest and knowledge I found it important to start closer to his needs or rather a bit higher so he'd grow with it, and also so upgrading may never be necessary or atleast for many years maybe if our future child gets interested. And it was a lot of money to me!!.
So he set it up and I eagerly looked through it to see what all that money bought and I was "oh my god you can't see anything and it's blury and was panicing binoculars were the same" but in a little less lady like terms and asking stupid things like is the lens cover off (which yes I know don't really exist like on cameras
) and James just puts his hand on my shoulder and says it's ok it has to cool down and climatise to the air. I thought that was weird and he started explaining in technical terms so I quickly agreed
as you are all probably thinking typical women
. So I felt like an idiot the first time I learnt about climitising it. Now it stays in it's paded box it came in when not used in a cool room in our house on concret floor. I actually started looking at cases before EP's but they are pretty dear and James could probably make one himself in the future or for now we can wait and get EP's first to do more with it
