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Old 07-11-2018, 08:36 PM
Wavytone
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Typical small APO... I have the TS 70mm one as a travel scope - ordered from TS, no issues. It is a heavy little beastie solidly built with a massive focusser that will easily hold a heavy camera - and then there's a lot of glass inside.

Visually within the 32mm image circle its sharp, free of colour and the field is indeed quite flat so don't use Televue, Erfle, SWA or Plossl eyepieces with it. I have taken a few shots through it with my M4/3 camera and apart from finding focus is super critical it’s fine. My camera provide live view with 5X magnification and I don’t find focussing difficult.

But... immediately beyond 16mm off axis the image quality literally falls off a cliff - so its simply not really suited to big 2" wide field eyepieces.

For visual use I have a TEC turret on the back and a clutch of 1.25" eyepieces 4mm - 25mm.

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