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Check out this link to the folks at Williams Optics in Taiwan ... I had been drooling over their Megrez 80 for some months ... now it turns out they have a specific Nikon 28mm adapter for their telescopes. You can see the results here ... Check out the equivalent focal lengths!!

See the Test1 Test2 and TEST3 links mid page.

http://www.optics.com.tw/E/Telescope/MEGREZ.html

I have no relationship with these people other than as a potential customer for the telescope. sigh.

W.R.Sterling
 
I found the Nikon telescope adapter for $99 - 28mm to 1.25" in the USA here ...

http://www.buytelescopes.com/product.asp?t=&pid=3346&m=&show=images

They also have the Williams Optics telescope. Megrez 80

W.R.STerling
William R. Sterling said:
Check out this link to the folks at Williams Optics in Taiwan ... I
had been drooling over their Megrez 80 for some months ... now it
turns out they have a specific Nikon 28mm adapter for their
telescopes. You can see the results here ... Check out the
equivalent focal lengths!!

See the Test1 Test2 and TEST3 links mid page.

http://www.optics.com.tw/E/Telescope/MEGREZ.html

I have no relationship with these people other than as a potential
customer for the telescope. sigh.

W.R.Sterling
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William,

Thanks for the info.

These are amazing!!!

Thanks,

David Perry
William R. Sterling said:
http://www.buytelescopes.com/product.asp?t=&pid=3346&m=&show=images

They also have the Williams Optics telescope. Megrez 80

W.R.STerling
William R. Sterling said:
Check out this link to the folks at Williams Optics in Taiwan ... I
had been drooling over their Megrez 80 for some months ... now it
turns out they have a specific Nikon 28mm adapter for their
telescopes. You can see the results here ... Check out the
equivalent focal lengths!!

See the Test1 Test2 and TEST3 links mid page.

http://www.optics.com.tw/E/Telescope/MEGREZ.html

I have no relationship with these people other than as a potential
customer for the telescope. sigh.

W.R.Sterling
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David Perry said:
Thanks for the info.

These are amazing!!!

Thanks,

David Perry
William R. Sterling said:
I found the Nikon telescope adapter for $99 - 28mm to 1.25" in the
USA here ...

http://www.buytelescopes.com/product.asp?
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Gentleman, and folks, check out this site for other optical options, that might even save you some greenbacks. I like the crystalvue 8x32, which has served me well, with the threaded lenses on both ends, and oh the scopes for the real far away photographers. no affiliation, but check out their products and save a bundle of cache!

http://www.ckcpower.com/
David Perry64114 said:
David Perry64114 said:
They also have the Williams Optics telescope. Megrez 80

W.R.STerling
William R. Sterling said:
Check out this link to the folks at Williams Optics in Taiwan ... I
had been drooling over their Megrez 80 for some months ... now it
turns out they have a specific Nikon 28mm adapter for their
telescopes. You can see the results here ... Check out the
equivalent focal lengths!!

See the Test1 Test2 and TEST3 links mid page.

http://www.optics.com.tw/E/Telescope/MEGREZ.html

I have no relationship with these people other than as a potential
customer for the telescope. sigh.

W.R.Sterling
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CKC has some nice stuff, but they are not in the same league with the Williams Optics scope ... not even close. ;-) The Megrez 80mm with the adapter will set you back a bunch of change for sure, but you can get incredible results. This is a specialty setup for serious birding or sports photos.

W.R.Sterling
Scott66322 said:
Gentleman, and folks, check out this site for other optical
options, that might even save you some greenbacks. I like the
crystalvue 8x32, which has served me well, with the threaded lenses
on both ends, and oh the scopes for the real far away
photographers. no affiliation, but check out their products and
save a bundle of cache!

http://www.ckcpower.com/
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That Williams Optics scope produces REALLY nice shots. THat is one sweet piece of equipment. Those bird pictures are so amazing!!
 
Bullseye! I've been hanging on that scope myself William....it is a most excellent piece of "big glass." It would also be pretty tough to beat the quality of that scope for its asking price. That deduction is in consideration to the cost of other quality scopes such as the Leica, Pentax, etc. I only wonder why they settled for semi-APO? Nevertheless, it is a marked (X) object on my list.
William R. Sterling said:
Check out this link to the folks at Williams Optics in Taiwan ... I
had been drooling over their Megrez 80 for some months ... now it
turns out they have a specific Nikon 28mm adapter for their
telescopes. You can see the results here ... Check out the
equivalent focal lengths!!

See the Test1 Test2 and TEST3 links mid page.

http://www.optics.com.tw/E/Telescope/MEGREZ.html

I have no relationship with these people other than as a potential
customer for the telescope. sigh.

W.R.Sterling
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Snake Plissken said:
"I only wonder why they settled for semi-APO?"
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Snake, What does APO and Semi-APO mean?
I havn't looked into big scopes yet, but those pics look great.

Just don't tell Frances about this Scope, he might really have fun! :-)

Thanks.

Yours sincerely,
Michael Offe,
South Australia.
 
Mike...that is a good question what Williams Optics means by semi-APO?

APO means apochromatic correction. In brief....if a person plans on using their cameras with scopes of this magnitude it is essentially a categorical imperative that the scope incorporates APO. The only way to describe APO's photographic magnificence is to see the resultant two images between the APO and non-APO scopes compared next to each other.

An APO lens uses fluorite elements which allows for better brightness, better resolution at high magnification, and ultimately superior photographic results. A person will get everything they do not want from their images if they try and get by without an APO lens on their scope when their main purpose for purchasing that scope is photography.

If a person just uses a scope to visually look through they would only need a standard lens setup which is less expensive.
Michael Offe said:
Snake Plissken said:
"I only wonder why they settled for semi-APO?"
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Snake, What does APO and Semi-APO mean?
I havn't looked into big scopes yet, but those pics look great.

Just don't tell Frances about this Scope, he might really have fun!
:-)

Thanks.

Yours sincerely,
Michael Offe,
South Australia.
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Thanks Snake for the good explaination, you answered my question very well.

Thanks,
Michael Offe
Snake Plissken said:
APO means apochromatic correction. In brief....if a person plans on
using their cameras with scopes of this magnitude it is essentially
a categorical imperative that the scope incorporates APO. The only
way to describe APO's photographic magnificence is to see the
resultant two images between the APO and non-APO scopes compared
next to each other.

An APO lens uses fluorite elements which allows for better
brightness, better resolution at high magnification, and ultimately
superior photographic results. A person will get everything they do
not want from their images if they try and get by without an APO
lens on their scope when their main purpose for purchasing that
scope is photography.

If a person just uses a scope to visually look through they would
only need a standard lens setup which is less expensive.
Michael Offe said:
Snake Plissken said:
"I only wonder why they settled for semi-APO?"
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Snake, What does APO and Semi-APO mean?
I havn't looked into big scopes yet, but those pics look great.

Just don't tell Frances about this Scope, he might really have fun!
:-)

Thanks.

Yours sincerely,
Michael Offe,
South Australia.
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WOW!!!! I have seen the scopes on CKC Power.....but neither the Kenko or the CrystalVue comes close to matching the quality of the MegRez. Simply amazing stuff.

Too bad Santa is broke this year! ARGH!
 
Semi APO means it is NOT APO (apochromatic lens)
Spotting scopes used just for viewing are not well corrected
in general for chromatic abberation. This causes blue/red fringing in areas

of high contrast. Essentially the lens needs to bring all colors of different wavelenghts together at the focal point. For photographic purposes this is essential. Most spotting scopes were not designed as a camera lens.

I have not tested this scope but the price difference between this and the Leica or Sworovski purchsed grey market with ocular is not that much different. The real cost of something is your purchase price minus your resale price when you go to sell it. You hardly lose a dime if you care for your Leica or Sworovski, I am not sure about this. If anyone gets this scope and is in the New York or NJ area I would love to test it out with my adaptor. I have noticed some chromatic abberation on their sample images.
I will keep an open mind on this scope but I have my doubts.

I love digiscoping and have a site were I add what I can about it and accept your images for review in the gallery.
http://www.coolpixpage.com
Thad
Snake Plissken said:
APO means apochromatic correction. In brief....if a person plans on
using their cameras with scopes of this magnitude it is essentially
a categorical imperative that the scope incorporates APO. The only
way to describe APO's photographic magnificence is to see the
resultant two images between the APO and non-APO scopes compared
next to each other.

An APO lens uses fluorite elements which allows for better
brightness, better resolution at high magnification, and ultimately
superior photographic results. A person will get everything they do
not want from their images if they try and get by without an APO
lens on their scope when their main purpose for purchasing that
scope is photography.

If a person just uses a scope to visually look through they would
only need a standard lens setup which is less expensive.
Michael Offe said:
Snake Plissken said:
"I only wonder why they settled for semi-APO?"
Click to expand...
Snake, What does APO and Semi-APO mean?
I havn't looked into big scopes yet, but those pics look great.

Just don't tell Frances about this Scope, he might really have fun!
:-)

Thanks.

Yours sincerely,
Michael Offe,
South Australia.
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Thad,

Check out Sky and Telescopes review ... Looks like they liked it.

http://www.skypub.com/resources/testreports/telescopes/0110william.html

W.R.Sterling

p.s. guys - APO means corrected for 3 frequencies of light - normally requires a 3 element lens - Semi-APO in this case means 2 lens using low dispersion glass. Achromat means 2 element with crown and flint glass.
Thad said:
I have not tested this scope but the price difference between this
and the Leica or Sworovski purchsed grey market with ocular is not
that much different. The real cost of something is your purchase
price minus your resale price when you go to sell it. You hardly
lose a dime if you care for your Leica or Sworovski, I am not sure
about this. If anyone gets this scope and is in the New York or NJ
area I would love to test it out with my adaptor. I have noticed
some chromatic abberation on their sample images.
I will keep an open mind on this scope but I have my doubts.
I love digiscoping and have a site were I add what I can about it
and accept your images for review in the gallery.
http://www.coolpixpage.com
Thad
Snake Plissken said:
APO means apochromatic correction. In brief....if a person plans on
using their cameras with scopes of this magnitude it is essentially
a categorical imperative that the scope incorporates APO. The only
way to describe APO's photographic magnificence is to see the
resultant two images between the APO and non-APO scopes compared
next to each other.

An APO lens uses fluorite elements which allows for better
brightness, better resolution at high magnification, and ultimately
superior photographic results. A person will get everything they do
not want from their images if they try and get by without an APO
lens on their scope when their main purpose for purchasing that
scope is photography.

If a person just uses a scope to visually look through they would
only need a standard lens setup which is less expensive.
Michael Offe said:
Snake Plissken said:
"I only wonder why they settled for semi-APO?"
Click to expand...
Snake, What does APO and Semi-APO mean?
I havn't looked into big scopes yet, but those pics look great.

Just don't tell Frances about this Scope, he might really have fun!
:-)

Thanks.

Yours sincerely,
Michael Offe,
South Australia.
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Michael,

Here is a fairly cogent description of achromat, ed, semi-apo and apo by Mike Palermiti an optics designer with a Ph.D. in physics ...

http://www.burnettweb.com/ite/t2-intro.htm

W.R.Sterling
Michael Offe said:
Snake Plissken said:
"I only wonder why they settled for semi-APO?"
Click to expand...
Snake, What does APO and Semi-APO mean?
I havn't looked into big scopes yet, but those pics look great.

Just don't tell Frances about this Scope, he might really have fun!
:-)

Thanks.

Yours sincerely,
Michael Offe,
South Australia.
Click to expand...
 
William R. Sterling said:
Check out this link to the folks at Williams Optics in Taiwan ... I
had been drooling over their Megrez 80 for some months ... now it
turns out they have a specific Nikon 28mm adapter for their
telescopes. You can see the results here ... Check out the
equivalent focal lengths!!

See the Test1 Test2 and TEST3 links mid page.

http://www.optics.com.tw/E/Telescope/MEGREZ.html

I have no relationship with these people other than as a potential
customer for the telescope. sigh.

W.R.Sterling
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The output on these images looks very good, but there may be a hitch which I would want to check out before getting to serious about this combination.

In the picture, the camera is mounted perpendicular to the scope. If this is the only way it mounts, and if there is no other way to see the target when it's mounted other than through the camera's LCD, then "finding" the bird is going to be REALLY difficult. Generally, when digiscoping, or even birding with a powerful scope, it's much easier if the eyepiece is in-line with the barrel of the telescope. When it is, you can sight over the top and approximate the location of the target. When it's mounted at 45 degrees or 90 degrees as in the sample, it's darned near impossible to find a bird and very exasperating trying.

Scopes like the Swarovski come in both 45 degree and straight configurations and the straight configuration works MUCH better......

Lin

Lin
 
Lin Evans said:
William R. Sterling said:
Check out this link to the folks at Williams Optics in Taiwan ... I
had been drooling over their Megrez 80 for some months ... now it
turns out they have a specific Nikon 28mm adapter for their
telescopes. You can see the results here ... Check out the
equivalent focal lengths!!

See the Test1 Test2 and TEST3 links mid page.

http://www.optics.com.tw/E/Telescope/MEGREZ.html

I have no relationship with these people other than as a potential
customer for the telescope. sigh.

W.R.Sterling
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Member said:
The output on these images looks very good, but there may be a
hitch which I would want to check out before getting to serious
about this combination.

In the picture, the camera is mounted perpendicular to the scope.
If this is the only way it mounts, and if there is no other way to
see the target when it's mounted other than through the camera's
LCD, then "finding" the bird is going to be REALLY difficult.
Generally, when digiscoping, or even birding with a powerful scope,
it's much easier if the eyepiece is in-line with the barrel of the
telescope. When it is, you can sight over the top and approximate
the location of the target. When it's mounted at 45 degrees or 90
degrees as in the sample, it's darned near impossible to find a
bird and very exasperating trying.

Scopes like the Swarovski come in both 45 degree and straight
configurations and the straight configuration works MUCH
better......

Lin
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The Williams scopes do look very good, but when I offered the crystavue, I was thinking about the average photographer who wants to add some panache to their zoom capability. The sharpshooter, 8x32, can turn a 3x optical zoom into a 24x optical!, and has a focal range of 26" to infinity. It is very light and small, and is only a 150 bones case and adapter included, as compared to 600 bones for the Williams. If I want a telescope, I would buy one.
 
Lin Evans said:
Scopes like the Swarovski come in both 45 degree and straight
configurations and the straight configuration works MUCH
better......

Lin

Lin
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I believe you can leave off the 45 degree adapter, but then I think everything will be upside down. The trick with the 45 adapter is to use 2 eye pieces. One has the camera attached and the other does not. You find the bird with one, then you swap eye pieces and put the other one with the camera on and pray the bird didn't move. It is time consuming to take good pictures, but if it was easy then everyone would be doing it.
Ralph
 
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