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Originally Posted by Steffen
I received a set of Vixen tube rings today from Steve Massey, and he slipped in a Vixen brochure. Low and behold, the VC200L Visac is still very much in their programme. I first saw this scope back in 1997-8 when a fellow WSAAG member got his from AEC Claude. Vixen evidently thinks highly of this design if they hang onto it for so long.
Cheers
Steffen.
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It IS a good design. Only drawbacks I see are:
1. awkward collimation - but once it's set, it usually stays that way for a LONG time
2. Overly thick spider vanes. Yes, certainly rigid and stop a lot of secondary shift, but man does it make some diffraction spikes!
I can live with it all, as optically they are INCREDIBLE - the flattener makes the edges VERY distortion free. At reduced f/6.4, the images are GORGEOUS.