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Old 30-12-2012, 05:16 PM
wulfgar
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Originally Posted by Profiler View Post
Another point for some perspective as to why these generic 127 models are becoming much cheaper is that a new design is now on the horizon - the first examples/incarnation being under the badge of 'Meade 6000 series' refractors (these 127's being examples of the previous Meade 5000 series). Examples of the 6000 series can be found on the Bintel site.
I could hazard a guess that the glass merchants are getting rid of their stocks of FPL-51 and its equivalents. So the Scope uses the advertising point of "ED" triplet obscuring the fact that it is a very ordinary type of ED.
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