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Originally Posted by janoskiss
Like I tell everyone, my Shorty-plus was very ordinary compared with another similarly priced Japanese barlow. I would not buy it. Does the job, but it's no keeper. I'd give the meade apo or televue a go in the 1.25" formats.
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I'll go out on a limb and suggest that Steves experiences with the shorty-plus are in use with complex eyepieces such as his panoptic and stratus eyepieces.
I have both a shorty-plus and the 2 inch Japanese barlows that he mentions and I see absolutely no difference in performance using either with plossls or my Pentax XL's.
The only time I bother with the jap 2" barlow is when I want to barlow my 31mm nagler. Its a big beast of a thing and when swapping and changing eyepieces around I find the smaller 1.25' easier to deal with.