Spotting Scope & Eye Glasses
Spotting scope & eye glasses - A combination I'm having trouble with.
Have been told to look for a scope with the longest eye relief possible, but many scope spec's do not indicate eye relief. What type dimension, or length, should I be looking for ?
Light gathering quality seems important to most people. I'm retired
and seldom go to the range except on nice sunny days. Should light gathering qualities be of much concern to me?
Clarity is important, but I'm only trying to see a .22 hole at 50 to 100 yds. Wouldn't almost any scope do that? Now if I had an attractive neighbor lady that did housework and washed the inside of her windows in the nude that may be a different criteria for clarity.
Got carried away here, but the eye relief thing is my major question.
Would appreciate help and comments.
Thanks
Have been told to look for a scope with the longest eye relief possible, but many scope spec's do not indicate eye relief. What type dimension, or length, should I be looking for ?
Light gathering quality seems important to most people. I'm retired
and seldom go to the range except on nice sunny days. Should light gathering qualities be of much concern to me?
Clarity is important, but I'm only trying to see a .22 hole at 50 to 100 yds. Wouldn't almost any scope do that? Now if I had an attractive neighbor lady that did housework and washed the inside of her windows in the nude that may be a different criteria for clarity.
Got carried away here, but the eye relief thing is my major question.
Would appreciate help and comments.
Thanks
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I use a small Kowa for 50 yd. 22 shooting. It works "ok" with my glasses but isn't ideal. My Lieca Televid is better than ok with the glasses - it's excellent - but it's overkill for your 50 yd. shooting. 0 -
If you buy a high end spotting scope like the Optolyth or Leica, they have a fold back rubber eyepiece for glasses. My Leica rangefinder and Binos have them and I would imagine Rick Reno has it on his Televid. It cost some dough but once you get them you wince when you look through ordinary optics.
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I also use a Leica Televid APO, and it is indeed overkill for your purposes, unless that neighbor decides to do the windows. I have used a Bushnell Space Master Since the mid-70's that has done an excellent job for me and has the focal length or eye relief to work well with my glasses. I will offer a couple of sites that are good optics sources: http://www.eagleoptics.com www.bearbasin.com 0 -
Bushnell makes a 20-50x60 spacemaster. It has very good eye relief almost an inch. It has good optics. The spacemaster is good out to a couple hundred yards so might be over kill. 0 -
Thanks to all that responded to my post. I will search e-bay for one of used units suggested. I hit in the black so seldom that it would be nice to see it when it happens.
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I have a similar problem. But your query asks another question: do you wear glasses to correct an astigmatism, as well as near or far vision?
If you have no significant astigmatism, and if the telescope has sufficient diopter adjustment, you may avoid the eye relief problem by removing your glasses. Removing can also be leaving them on an pushing them out of the way.0 -
Here's a site that offers a number of reviews on spotting scopes: http://betterviewdesired.com/ . The site is actually targeted for bird watchers, but I find the reviews excellent. After doing my research and reading the reviews there I ended up with the Pentax 80ED. 0 -
BVD employed a slightly flawed testing procedure, that can easily explain how the contrast difference was seen between the Zeiss 85mm vs the Swaroski 80.
Carefully looking at the sunset picture shown, you can easily notice two major test differences.
#1 Scope viewing angle will be different between the left scope verses the middle.
Light entering the lens will be at a significantly different angle. That can easily affect the viewer's sight picture.
Should have swapped positions to give as Paul Harvey says, "And now for the rest of the story", or as Bill O'Reilly, "Fair and balanced reporting".
#2. Hard to accurately see, but the sliding objective "sun shades" look like their out at different lengths.
In low light viewing, one never uses a "sun shade".
In no way am I endorsing any manufacturer.
Just trying to show how tests can try to be fair, but unbalanced.
You decide only when you have the correct facts, and tests.
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