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Pentax PF80 EDa and fixed eyepieces
Chromatic Aberration - seen as colour fringing around images, especially a dark object against a light background. -
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Pentax PF80 EDa and fixed eyepieces
Well I now have the Pentax, with zoom, and have spent a bit of time comparing it to an excellent scope, my TV 85 with 9mm Nagler eyepiece. Yes, the TV equipment is better. The Pentax does show some CA, and some of it is in the eyepiece, because I put the zoom in the 85 and there it was. The... -
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Pentax PF80 EDa and fixed eyepieces
The other scopes you mention, Scott, don't have standard 1.25 eyepieces. I have heard that Swaro makes an adapter so that standard eyepieces can be used, but I don't know about the others. I am interested in the Pentax quality issue also, because of the very mixed reviews, and so am asking... -
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Pentax PF80 EDa and fixed eyepieces
I've just glanced at a few threads that are many months old that compare the Pentax 80 and zoom with other scopes and fixed eyepieces. I'm aboout to purchase an 80 because of the great price, and have several Televue eyepieces that I use with my 85 that I plan to share between the two scopes...