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Short Shootout - Vixen HR 3.4, DeLite 4, Nagler 3.5

iPeace

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iPeace

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6 minutes ago, Saganite said:

XW......XW.......XW, Mike !

You know it makes sense. 

I'll be more than happy to do your shopping :grin:

There's another sly one who's been and played the 'finite availability' card, so the XW shouldn't wait long. But it won't stop there. I'll be in touch. :smiley:

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23 hours ago, John said:

Strange to think that I didn't get along with the mighty and venerated Leica ASPH zoom

...and oddly coincidental that you should raise this point just now; while recently away on holiday, I was ogling the Leica Zoom in the classifieds; very close to going for it but kept thinking of your fairly recent trials. I even almost PM'd you for advice, but then I figured you'd already shared all I needed to know.

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1 hour ago, iPeace said:

...and oddly coincidental that you should raise this point just now; while recently away on holiday, I was ogling the Leica Zoom in the classifieds; very close to going for it but kept thinking of your fairly recent trials. I even almost PM'd you for advice, but then I figured you'd already shared all I needed to know.

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I've been looking at the the Leica Zoom on UK AB&S and decided against it for the same reason, hope this doesn't mean that people will be put off from buying this Zoom.

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15 minutes ago, iPeace said:

It's very lovely indeed. 7mm and 3.5mm incoming; 5mm back-ordered (should be a week or two). :icon_biggrin:

 

I take it from the above order then you are liking the XW ?

Great move. I had my 7XW in the OOuk the other night on Jupiter. And it was one of the best view's I have had of Jupiter. The shorter focal range of XW are just such a good all rounder. And with the constant rumours that some of the XW series may be stopped being made. Then IMO an eyepiece that is a must for fans of ortho sharpness, but with a wide fov and great eye relief. And on top of this the XW do seem to perform so well in most scopes.

 

 

 

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Shame Pentax has pulled out of the astronomy market. Would have made the subject of this thread interesting if we had a new, slimmed down XW range - XF sized - to take on Delites. Industry is much poorer (though TeleVue much richer) for it.

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I wonder if it is more to do with Ricoh, who now own the Pentax division which produces the XW's ?

If Ricoh don't feel that the astro market is important then who knows what will happen ?

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