Telescope Reviews: Re: First Pair

Hi Maximus!! … Thank you for your reply & links and welcome to the CN family!!

I would like to thank every body for their help and guidance in helping me pick a pair of binoculars!!

I have been researching all day today on what I should go in for, but all I have managed is to thoroughly confuse myself!!

... Please don’t get me wrong; all your help and suggestions have in fact have been instrumental in guiding me so that I don’t land up with something I regret. The only conclusion I have been able to come to so far is that picking a pair of binoculars is FAR more difficult than picking a telescope or eyepieces!

The Pentax PCF WP II has nice features like Hallelujah has pointed out but it lacks FOV as Charen, Kenny and Ron point out. The point Ron makes about ‘not knowing where you are half the time’ is a very good one. I plan on using these primarily for Astronomy (80%) and occasionally for terrestrial, and hence the decision for 10X50’s. If only the Pentax had a greater fov, my problems would be solved!

Kenny, I have no idea regarding the different types of focus types. All I have ever seen are the ones with the knob in the middle, which raise and lower both Ep’s simultaneously. It would be great if you could educate me a bit about the individual focus type and its pros and cons

Hallelujah, thanks for posting the link for the Garret optical Ultras! They look identical to the ones I posted a link for and the Orions and are also marginally cheaper than them!,but I was unable to find any reviews for them or their bretherin. Doug makes a good point about the weight. What is the max weight an average person built can handle for handheld bino usage?

This leaves me only with the Nikon action extremes...I’m some how not too convinced about them. I’m also contemplating about waiting for a while (long while) and collecting enough for a Fujinon FMT-SX 10x70. Sadly, I donot have the luxury of trying before I buy, so I dont want to spend $200 and not be Happy

These seem to be the gold standard and seem to do every thing well. There’s also this scheme on telescopes.com called ‘bill me later’ that is currently offering to defer payments for upto 12 months!! Any body used this or aware about this??...are there any catches??... this scheme has got me thinking about the Fujinons!!

Sabir

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