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APM M.Ludes
Vendor (APM Telescopes)

Reged: 05/01/03

Loc: Germany

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: suburbanskies]
#5156388 - 04/04/12 04:35 PM

ok we will wait till end of april, then make a decision , fair enough ?

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suburbanskies
sage

Reged: 12/18/04

Loc: New Jersey, USA

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: APM M.Ludes]
#5156675 - 04/04/12 07:56 PM

Sounds good!

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HCR32
sage

Reged: 08/27/10

Loc: Australia

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: suburbanskies]
#5157137 - 04/05/12 06:48 AM

yep

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BillP
Postmaster

Reged: 11/26/06

Loc: Vienna, VA

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: HCR32]
#5157967 - 04/05/12 04:58 PM

Quote:

Go for the excisting ortho design Marcus. If their going to be anywhere as good as the tmbs where they will sell out regardless of the wide-field large ER everyone want.

Agreed.

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BillP
Postmaster

Reged: 11/26/06

Loc: Vienna, VA

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: jrbarnett]
#5157989 - 04/05/12 05:12 PM

Quote:

How many air-to-glass surfaces in the Konig II?

I applaud your efforts to breathe some new life into a very stagnant simple high end eyepiece market.

Regards,

Jim

From my reading, Konig-I is 1-2-1 design, Konig-II is 2-1-1 and Konig Wide Field is 3-2-1. the Konig-II offers better orthoscopy and ER than the Konig-I. Trying to get more than 55 degrees out of them would mean a sacrifice to orthoscopy, eyerelief, and/or flatness of field.

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Moonglum
professor emeritus

Reged: 06/01/08

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: BillP]
#5158106 - 04/05/12 06:51 PM

BGO's are what-95% the performance of ZAO II's?
What could possibly be 95% the performance of an ubered Konig II design? GSO superviews? Naw...oppurtunity is knocking on the Konig II door. More orthos will simply be... more orthos. The best quality sure, but the limited field of view precludes alt/az viewers, and there are more and more of us all the time.

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pbsastro
sage

Reged: 03/21/07

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: Moonglum]
#5189713 - 04/25/12 11:50 AM

I would be interested in pairs of 20 and 32-34. I will keep the pairs of ZAO-II and aspheric triplets, so not interested in 25 and 16. However 20 fits perfectly between with 1.25x progression.
I am only interested in ZAO-II grade or better. Not interested in BGO grade or even SuperBGO grade. I compared BGO 18 to ZAO-16 and they are not in the same league. Off-axis of course. On-axis even ball eyepieces are top...
IMO the goal should be to make it even better than ZAO-II, not how to get it cheaper.
ZAOs ER is perfect starting at 16, no need to improve there. What could be improved is the slight field curvature of the ZAO-II 16. No astigmatism however, unlike BGOs and SuperPlossls.
Like ZAOs, improvements should be achieved by special glass, polish and coatings, not by extra elements. For that we have Ethos, etc.

Edited by pbsastro (04/25/12 07:05 PM)

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pbsastro
sage

Reged: 03/21/07

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: APM M.Ludes]
#5190356 - 04/25/12 05:59 PM

Quote:

Hi Larry

Flat Field means what ? A eyepiece can be designed flat field only with a special telescope modell, becauase each scope has a diffrent curvative. So if you design a eyepiece for 1 scope to be flat field, it will not be flat field with another scope

Markus, flat means flat with flat field scope, such as EdgeHD, TV NPs, 65EDQ, etc. Medium and large refractors also have insignificant field curvature for narrow field eyepieces as orthos.

Pedro

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APM M.Ludes
Vendor (APM Telescopes)

Reged: 05/01/03

Loc: Germany

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: pbsastro]
#5191905 - 04/26/12 03:25 PM

Hi Pedro

even the scopes you name are not flat field, they have a better field correction, but they are not flat field. Flat field means to me, at edge the same spot as in center

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suburbanskies
sage

Reged: 12/18/04

Loc: New Jersey, USA

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: APM M.Ludes]
#5196368 - 04/29/12 11:16 AM

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ok we will wait till end of april, then make a decision , fair enough ?

OK Markus, it is now the end of April. Shall we switch to the orthos?

Mark

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Stellarfire
Pooh-Bah

Reged: 07/10/11

Loc: Switzerland

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: APM M.Ludes]
#5210428 - 05/07/12 02:56 PM

Still very interested in any news on those new German Orthos with ZAO-II quality level...

Stephan

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pbsastro
sage

Reged: 03/21/07

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: Stellarfire]
#5210853 - 05/07/12 07:14 PM

Quote:

Still very interested in any news on those new German Orthos with ZAO-II quality level...

Stephan

Me too, but at 20mm and above only, to complement the ZAO-II.

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APM M.Ludes
Vendor (APM Telescopes)

Reged: 05/01/03

Loc: Germany

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: pbsastro]
#5212200 - 05/08/12 02:37 PM

Today I have had a phone talk

1, next week the famous ED Barlow arrives for shipping, a few are left , for those who still want one

2, I was promissed to get the answere before May 22 regards the eyepiece ...some companys are really slowly working :-(

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Stellarfire
Pooh-Bah

Reged: 07/10/11

Loc: Switzerland

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: APM M.Ludes]
#5212258 - 05/08/12 03:11 PM

Quote:

Today I have had a phone talk

I was promissed to get the answere before May 22 regards the eyepiece ...some companys are really slowly working :-(

That's good news!

Stephan

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Alvin Huey
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 10/18/05

Loc: NorCal

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: Stellarfire]
#5212392 - 05/08/12 04:31 PM

Just wanted to put a plug for the TMB ED 1.8x Barlow...if you are looking for a great 1.25" barlow - this is it.

I use it with my ZAO-II's and Delos - amazing!

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pbsastro
sage

Reged: 03/21/07

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: Alvin Huey]
#5213447 - 05/09/12 10:09 AM

Quote:

Just wanted to put a plug for the TMB ED 1.8x Barlow...if you are looking for a great 1.25" barlow - this is it.

I use it with my ZAO-II's and Delos - amazing!

Is it better than the Zeiss barlow (sold with ZAO-II)?

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APM M.Ludes
Vendor (APM Telescopes)

Reged: 05/01/03

Loc: Germany

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: pbsastro]
#5213470 - 05/09/12 10:25 AM

both are perfect as it can be

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pbsastro
sage

Reged: 03/21/07

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: APM M.Ludes]
#5213472 - 05/09/12 10:26 AM

Quote:

2, I was promissed to get the answere before May 22 regards the eyepiece ...some companys are really slowly working :-(

Markus, I must say I was very surprised when you mentioned initially 8 weeks for production.
Taking so long to reply is not a good sign for the real production time...
In situations like this we realise the value of dealing with APM, with super fast response time and fast delivery time, including parts actually produced by APM like scope tubes.

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Stellarfire
Pooh-Bah

Reged: 07/10/11

Loc: Switzerland

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: pbsastro]
#5213791 - 05/09/12 01:24 PM

Good things come to those who wait (at least sometimes...)

If the final product will be on EXACTLY the same quality level as the terrific ZAO-II, I will be very happy to accept that waiting time.

Stephan

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Sgt
Pooh-Bah

Reged: 12/17/05

Loc: Under the southern horn of the...

Re: New Orthos from Germany new

[Re: APM M.Ludes]
#5234573 - 05/22/12 06:38 PM

Quote:

Today I have had a phone talk

1, next week the famous ED Barlow arrives for shipping, a few are left , for those who still want one

2, I was promissed to get the answere before May 22 regards the eyepiece ...some companys are really slowly working :-(

Well, 22nd May has come and gone in Germany, has Berliner Glas kept it's promise to you?

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