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    Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions

    I have 30-60 eyepiece. I find that 30x is quite easy for me to use. :) With 60x eye placement is very critical and blackouts are hard to avoid, so the 60x has limited value especially with targets like flying birds. :(
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    Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions

    Distortion from the 30-60xWA is certainly noticeable. I wouldn't stand that kind of distortion from binoculars, because panning is bread and butter in migration watch. With scope, panning is usually slow and distortion does not bother that much. In fast action I don't pay attention to...
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    Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions

    I haven't used scope for a while, as it's has been like -10C every day. I think that Nightforce and Cabelas are only siblings with S2. When I made the decision of 30-60 EP, I read through every discussion of 30-60 vs. 20-70. The choise is close, but majority of people in different forums seemed...
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    Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions

    The focus drive didn't feel jerky, but the stay on case has friction with the focus wheel, which is not helping with high zoom. I am going to keep it my car trunk, mostly to be used near the car. I have walked 500m with it and it's ok to carry for that kind of shorter walks. It's very tall...
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    Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions

    I did some max zoom test in the parking lot. There is dumpster about 100 meters away with small print texts. The pics were taken with Nikon p900 camera (taking photoscoped pics with phone was too difficult), in the second pic there is 2000mm zoom, which is = 40X magnification. I could read all...
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    Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions

    Thanks for your comments jring and mskb :t:. Eye relief seems to good with Meopta, even with zoom. My problem with zoom was blackouts in the corners, if the eye placement was not perfect. But now I getting better with the zoom. Anyway, the zoom is quite fast at 60x, so it's not that easy to...
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    Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions

    I have been thinking long time of upgrading my Nikon ED50, because in migration watch and in some birdtowers it's undergunned. So I almost bought 80mm Swarovski from ebay auction, thought about buying Monarch scope and also thought biting the bullet and paying 3000€ for the Kowa 883 + tripod and...
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