Evil eyepiece obsession in Japan

[castor]

I gave into Temptation and bought three eyepieces in Osaka for the princely sum of 51,000 yen.

A LVW 17mm, a LVW 3.5mm and an LV 30mm which is 2'' and has a field of 60 degrees, although it looks wider.

I see I am going to have some fun with these toys......

[wavelandscott (Scott)]

Originally Posted by citivolus

Only two stops from Akihabara. I wish I had known about that shop the last time I was there! Here is a link to a Google map:

http://tinyurl.com/3b6cmn

Eric

Stopped in to visit this shop earlier today while I was killing time before heading to my flight back to Australia tonight...some wonderful gear! The people were very nice!

If I actually needed anything I would sure consider buy8ing from them!

[StarLane]

Originally Posted by wavelandscott

Stopped in to visit this shop earlier today while I was killing time before heading to my flight back to Australia tonight...some wonderful gear! The people were very nice!

If I actually needed anything I would sure consider buy8ing from them!

Top shop that one. When I was there in April I purchased an LVW 17 for 16,900 yen, are they still the same price?? At the moment that is less than $169 AUD, when I purchased my 17mm it cost me around $180 or so with the exchange rate at that time, still cheap.... They are great staff, they even let me test the EP shooting out the window down the streets of Tokyo before I made the purchase.

[wavelandscott (Scott)]

Originally Posted by StarLane

Top shop that one. When I was there in April I purchased an LVW 17 for 16,900 yen, are they still the same price?? At the moment that is less than $169 AUD, when I purchased my 17mm it cost me around $180 or so with the exchange rate at that time, still cheap.... They are great staff, they even let me test the EP shooting out the window down the streets of Tokyo before I made the purchase.

I actually did not pay a lot of attention to pricing of most things as it was mostly a window shopping adventure to kill part of the morning before the flight back to Australia after a long week of business meetings.

I must confess that I did buy a Homestar Planetarium (including southern sky disc) at a very attractive price from them...but mostly it was just looking and dreaming of a big Takahashi...

[allan gould]

Originally Posted by nightstalker

http://www.kkohki.com/English/kkohkiparts.html

does list list some good prices and global delivery .. have you tried
them paul ?.. though it does mention somewheres there to check first .

I bought Vixen 22, 13, 8mm LVWs from the above. I was totally surprised that when the Japanese say parfocal, they mean absolutely parfocal. And to boot these are parfocal with my 6mm LV from Vixen and the cost delivered to Australia meant that I got 3 eyepieces for the price of 2.
Excellent service - quick, courteous and precise.

[gb_astro]

Allan, how much were the shipping charges for those three?

Thanks,
gb.

[allan gould]

Originally Posted by gb_astro

Allan, how much were the shipping charges for those three?

Thanks,
gb.

Havn't got the receipt now but about $AUD35 from memory. I LOve them so much I'm thinking of getting the new 30mm LVW - it would be a real cracker.
Anyway contact them and they will give a firm price in Yen including postage (insured).
Allan

[GrahamL]

I placed an order last week and found it a little strange i hadn't heard anything all week..I got an email yesterday..and it seems as always my
timeing is working to perfection.

Japan is shut down for the Buddhist "OBON" holidays, where
the spirits of our dead ancestors come back to our homes and visit us
for a while.

..... cool eh ?

So if your planning an order to japan avoid 10-17 augest