Re: Leupold spotting scope?

"Rick" wrote

RJP wrote:

What I urge people to do is compare. Look through zooms and fixed
eyepieces in the 24x to 32x range on the same scope. Compare the
view at the same maginfication. Do you like to zoom better? Zoom
up to 50 or 60 power. Are you *really* distinguishing more details?

I think that you are correct. Mike McDowell ran a test on fixed vs
zoom--see link below.
http://www.birddigiscoping.com/2008/08/fixed-versus-zoom-again.html

I'm going to guess, though, that the Swarovski eyepieces, zoom and fixed,
are of pretty high quality. The difference between such eyepieces offered
by, say, Vortex or Audubon, may show more striking differences.

I'm curious what Jim winds up with and how well he likes it.

Howard


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