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I have a TOA130F and I reckon it is superb visually as well as for photography. I have had issues, but these were my own fault, once it came out of the mount and crashed to the floor of my obs, where I saw my life flash before me, the other time, also my own fault was when I did not check the clutch tensioning on the mount when I closed my obs roof and the whole scope slipped through the clutch and belted into the roof of the obs. This would not normally have happened, but I had totally out of balanced the setup by removing my guide scope an ED 80.
After the second debacle, I decided at the recommendation of the Aust Distrubutor to get a mob in Sydney to re collimate it, and that is the subject of another thread here. Suffice to say they totally stuffed it up and it had to go back to Japan for a complete rebuild. Now I have it back and it is to quote My Takahashi contact, as good as a brand new scope. They are bullet proof almost, but wont stand the treatment I accidentally gave them.
In a night of almost perfect seeing, I had a 5x powermate and the Tak 7.5 eyepiece viewing Saturn at Paul Hease's place a couple of years ago, and the image filled the field of view, it was absolutely superb. So in my opinion they are also an excellent telescope visually as well as for photography.
I must admit though the 4" focuser F version is better than the 2.7" S version, I think this focuser is much more robust and also has the camera rotator standard as well, which is a huge plus.
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