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    SDL v3 Eyepiece Now Shipping

    If the 77 didn't look better than the 60 then you had a bad sample of the 77. I've had the 60mm MM3 for a few years now, and once a year I get to compare scopes at the local bird fair. Opticron has a presence and they let people take the scopes outside to set up and compare side by side. I...
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    SDL v3 Eyepiece Now Shipping

    Thank you, I attached a screen clip of the table as an image so people don't have to download the Word doc file. The increase in AFOV looks most generous at lower magnification, which is good because that's exactly where the SDL zoom was really below par. The jump from 35 to 41 at 18x and from...
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    SDL v3 Eyepiece Now Shipping

    Can you clean up the formatting on the data? I can't make sense of it the way it is right now :/ Perhaps wrapping the "code" tag around the table will let it format properly? It looks to me like you're saying that at 18x, the v2 has a 1.8 degree TFOV and a 35 deg AFOV, whereas the v3 ups...
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    SDL v3 Eyepiece Now Shipping

    Just an FYI, the 40809 actually gives ~23x on the MM3/4 60mm, not 28x. It gives 28x on the 77mm version. I have the newer version of this eyepiece (40831) and the SDL v2 zoom with my MM3 60 ED, and I also find I prefer the zoom and rarely use the fixed eyepiece. The fixed eyepiece has a wider...
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