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Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
It took me a little time to appreciate my difficulty viewing with the 30-60; I hope your experience doesn't grow any worse. There seems to be some variation in zoom ring resistance. Our first 20-70 was rather stiff; the 30-60 had some weirdness making it very hard to turn at first on each... -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
Thanks for mentioning this. As I said I've never tried a Meostar. The S2 is CCW, users here report that Meopro Airs are CCW, so I just assumed that all Meoptas were... it's certainly confusing if they aren't. -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
Yes, of course that would be an option. I just didn't want to do it, partly for the aesthetics, and mainly because we already like the 20-70 so much and it's so straightforward to use that we were very glad to return to it. That's unfortunate. Are you sure you have the eyecup height exactly... -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
Being too close to the eyepiece is the most common cause of blackouts, and after more careful examination and comparison, I'm now fairly sure that my own sense of finicky eye positioning with the 30-60W is entirely due to eyecup height (contrary to my earlier impression in #31). With eyecups... -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
Blackouts are not a typical issue for me/us, which is why I'm so surprised at this result. Thanks to the kindness of Meopta USA I have both eyepieces in hand this afternoon, and can compare them more carefully. (I unwisely rushed this before, because the 30-60 arrived when we were about to... -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
Hi artur, there's an adapter for S2 allowing use of most 1.25" astro eyepieces, and a 5mm gives 88x. (I have Nikon NAVSW) More magnification is possible but increasingly limited by atmospheric seeing. Meopta s2 82 hd + astro eyepieces -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
Complete retraction: while we don't find RB a problem, the 30-60W eyepiece soon turned out to be unusable for us. Both my wife and I (with quite different vision) were getting constant blackouts, not due to eyecups or relief, but because it's intolerant of any deviation from exact centering of... -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
Correction: that was my initial impression. I will now agree that eye placement is a bit more finicky with the 30-60 eyepiece, although it doesn't seem difficult to manage. (They have the same listed ER, but the 30-60 eyecup may be a bit too shallow for some reason, which is a common problem... -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
Well, our 30-60x WA eyepiece finally(!) arrived, and I've been able to compare it with the 20-70. I have to say I'm glad we got to experience that one too. But few would find owning both worthwhile, so a possibly difficult choice arises, depending on individual priorities. Both are optically... -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
No, still not! I don't know what's going on, as some other dealers do seem to have them in stock now (still? again?). And of course no one within a thousand miles has one I could just go look at, so we keep waiting. Which as I said is not as frustrating as one might imagine, because the 20-70... -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
Complete waste of time, as 99% of these are. He spends the first 4 minutes talking about these as if they're two different scope models rather than interchangeable eyepieces. Then he does a sloppy "comparison" of panning behavior in which only the right field edge is visible but he pans up and... -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
I find the focus on ours to be perfectly smooth, and its speed useful up to around 60 or 70x (not coincidentally), though higher mags with 1.25" eyepieces definitely become a challenge. Also of course the exit pupil gets small... and on the other end, while at lower mags one can dramatically... -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
Are you sure that's what you meant to say? Exit pupil = aperture / magnification, so over the range in common it's identical... and it's the 20-70 that can achieve a larger EP at 20x. Can you elaborate on that "uncomfortable distortion" in use? Other comments (including Lee's review) haven't... -
Meopta Meostar S2 30-60W first impressions
Congratulations Royfinn, a great deal on a great scope. Our own S2 has just arrived, but first impressions will form slowly as it's bad timing, we have arctic cold here for the next few days. It's our first scope and I have scanty memory of others for comparison, curiously dominated by a few...