Except the brownish colour it looks exactly the same as the GP. Is it a GP? No labelling at all
On this cool, fast extending tripod
it easily takes a TS 152 f/5.9 frac or a Mew 210 without any wabble
Edited by quilty, 17 June 2025 - 10:26 AM.
Is this a GP or EQ5?
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, Jun 17 2025 10:23 AM
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Posted 17 June 2025 - 10:23 AM
I have a Vixen GP and this one:
Except the brownish colour it looks exactly the same as the GP. Is it a GP? No labelling at all
On this cool, fast extending tripod
it easily takes a TS 152 f/5.9 frac or a Mew 210 without any wabble
Except the brownish colour it looks exactly the same as the GP. Is it a GP? No labelling at all
On this cool, fast extending tripod
it easily takes a TS 152 f/5.9 frac or a Mew 210 without any wabble
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Posted 17 June 2025 - 10:38 AM
That’s a CG5 and a surveyor tripod
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Posted 17 June 2025 - 10:43 AM
Yep.
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Posted 17 June 2025 - 11:38 AM
Thx for the fast reply.
CG5? exact clone of GP?
Yes, sort of surveyor. Absolute low weight, absolutely stable, absolutely fast, absolutely made for grass grounds
CG5? exact clone of GP?
Yes, sort of surveyor. Absolute low weight, absolutely stable, absolutely fast, absolutely made for grass grounds
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Posted 17 June 2025 - 12:02 PM
CG5s are all over the place in terms of how good a clone they are and how well made and performance. Even those from a single vendor, for example Celestron, varied from year to year. It's a crap shoot: some are nearly as nice as a Vixen and some are junk.
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Posted 17 June 2025 - 01:58 PM
CG is from Celestron and EQ5 by SW. Can we say then that EQ5 and CG5 are the same the former sold by SW the latter by C?
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