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Originally Posted by Digby
How do you find the 20x90 bino's?
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Well, er, I've only used them three or four times on McNaught where they performed admirably. Terrestrial views are outstanding, but I can't really comment on more critical astro usage. I think I may be a bit demanding about optical performance (I was trained as a sci/tech photographer, so that might account for it!) and I've noticed the performance on point sources isn't as good as I was expecting .. but hey, for $299, who's complaining? If you're interested I can bring them along to a forthcoming local meeting (ASNSW; Kulnura?) for you to check out. I don't have any parallelogram or other decent mounting for them yet, so that restricts my use of them for the moment.
They do come in a semi-rigid case with a strange, fiddly internal velcro compartment that's somewhat impractical. Also, the objective caps take two minutes each to force-fit, but always end up coming off by themselves in the case. Perhaps though, you don't need to know this!
What I can say for sure is that the 11x70's (for $129!) have completely blown me away. They're similar in performance to the bigger ones (brilliant for land-viewing, so-so with point light sources), but they're remarkably easy to hand-hold despite the x11. Maybe it's because they're lightwight and have good balance. I take them everywhere with me now. The views of the MW star fields at Kulnura were stunning!
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, PM me.
. I'll be at the next one for sure.
