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Just recently purchased Helios Quantum-3 25x100 Bins. small problem with collimation.. These bins require removing the covers to gain access to the prisms for tweaking. Anyone had experience please with these binoculars?? Any suggestions please or articles on collimating these? Any advice very grate fully received.
Many thanks.
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Art Fritzson
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Reged: 01/29/05
Posts: 315
Loc: Northern Virginia, USA
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For what it's worth, the Helios Quantum-3 25x100 Binos look exactly like the Celestron Skymaster 25x100 (see photo of the Helios here). There's lots of folks here with Skymasters that may be able to help.
- Art
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KennyJ
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Reged: 04/27/03
Posts: 20139
Loc: Lancashire UK
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wot ? no stars ? -- in England ? -- surely NOT ! :-)
Welcome to Cloudy Nights !
I'm not very pretty , but as a pretty regular attendee at this binocular forum , am not aware of any other members here who own one of these Helios Quantum -3s -- at least not under THAT name .
I'm curious as to whether or not you are " happy " to have received a new binocular out of collimation , and if so , WHY ?
I would also have thought that the person you bought it from OUGHT be able to answer your question .
If he or she CANNOT -- then quite frankly I don't think they should be in the business of selling 100mm binoculars in the first place !
Being unfamilar with the model , I cannot even guess whether or not it " conforms " to the " type " covered in the article , but it MIGHT be worth taking the time to read very carefully the following :
http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=416
Good luck !
Kenny
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Joad
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Reged: 03/22/05
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Welcome to Cloudy Nights, wotnostars. There are a number of resources that you can search here on binocular collimation, but it isn't for the faint of heart. Collimating binoculars is much more difficult for the untrained user than collimating a reflector or an SCT. If your binocular is brand new, you really should ask the dealer who sold it to you to fix it. Uncollimated binoculars will produce double images in sky gazing, and you don't want that.
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Anonymous
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Many thanks to all for the welcome and suggestions on my Quantum 25x100. The Bins. were purchased recently at an Astro event in UK and were 'sold as seen'. They were new and sealed in the case though and in V.good condition.I have emailed the company but to no avail.
They give a slight double image and reading edZ excellent article's and others on collimation I imagine it's a straitforward procedure (but tricky..and to proceed with care)to collimate. There are three adjusting screws and lock screws in each prism assembly after removing the covers. I have checked to ascertain if either of the lens show an imperfect circle (as the articles suggest) to show which prism may require adjusting, both look perfectly round to me. I guess I'll very carefully tweak a fraction each one to see if the image converges.
Thanks to all again,
a great and informative web site..
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