I never liked the "look" of the bulky finderscope that sat on top of my SW 10" COL-DOB.
And also the weight of it, personally I find the weight of it making my scope too top heavy and I noticed it caused a very minute downward pull when the tension screws where medium tightened.
With the addition of my newly obtained Argo Navis, The finderscope again was looking more and more useless and ugly
So I jumped online and looked at a few finderscopes, first I thought of a nice multi red dot finder, but costing $200 was a bit hevty.
I looked at some single red dot finders as they looked light weight and really I only needed something to do 2 star alignments.
I saw this thing called a "Telrad" - Wow it looked big and heavy! I remeber Norm showing me the Telrad at Feburary PC session and described how it works with the laser. It looked kind cool I thought at the time. But since i was in the market for something light weight I steered away from it.
I went down to York Optical on the weekend, and was about to purchase the red dot finder when the owner started taking about the Telrad. I thought "what the hell, il have a look at it"..
as soon as i grabbed it,is was light as a feather!!
The owner told me a bit more about it, how to use etc and said it was defintatly a must have item.
I thought "what the hell, I'l try it out."
Got it for a nice price, $90.00
tonight, I used it......
.......And I'm Lovin It!!
Telrad is excellent!
Light , simple , easy to use and it just works!
The laser is so easy to keep your eye on. So easy to collimate the rings and it looks soo cool on my scope!
Anyone looking for a good finderscope and prepared to sacrafise focal length.
The Telrad is two thumbs up!