CN FORUMS ARCHIVE Telescope Reviews: Re: Economy 100mm bino's Which ones?

Hi, I've had them (Burgess 25x100) a couple weeks now, and had them out under pretty good skies about four times now. I'm quite pleased with them. They are much better than I expected them to be. Their where no cosmetic deficencies. They where perfectly collumated. They are not as sharp as my 80mm Stellarvue refractor, but much brighter, and have about the same FOV as the Stellarvue 28X with the 65° AFOV of my 17mm LVSW eyepiece. I'm hesitant to say this, but even though I've taken my 16X70 Fujinons with me each time I've taken them out, I've not yet wanted to take the Burgess glasses off the mount and use the Fuji's. They do have detectable edge distortion, but it's not enough to bother me. My 10X50 Orion Ultravue's have much softer immages, and much worse edge correction. I realize one day soon, I'll have to do a side by side with my Fuji's and the Burgess glasses, to compare things like AFOV, edge sharpness and conotrast, but the extra aperture, and magnification, put the Burgess glasses almost into another category of instrument. They are almost as diffrent from my Fuji's as they are from my Stellarvue Refractor.

Edited by EdZ (03/30/04 11:59 AM)

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