How to Choose a Best Spotting Scope

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People that love to go birdwatching have for
years on end used binoculars UK to be able to
clearly observe their feathered friends that are
far away or when they dont want to venture too
close to those that are nesting. However, many
times bird watchers get a shock of their lives
when they put binoculars aside and decide to try
a spotting scope. A spotting scope can play such
a huge role because apart from making it easy for
someone to locate a faraway bird, it comes in
handy when you are dealing with some of those shy
and highly sensitive species such as hawks,
waterfowls and shorebirds in such a way that they
sometimes can put your bird watching
binoculars UK to shame. Just like with binoculars
UK, there are design and optical features you
should have in mind when buying a spotting scope.
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Magnification power You clearly say that a
spotting scope is a medium range telescope that
has magnification power of between 15x and 60x.
In order for you to adjust magnification you will
make use of interchangeable fixed length
eyepieces or a single zoom eyepiece. If you are
going to use a spotting scope, you are better off
starting using a lower setting as you start
scanning for a bird before you adjust to higher
power once you have located one.
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Glass quality You should expect any top quality
binoculars to come with extra-low dispersion (ED)
or fluorite coated high density (HD) glass. You
only need to peek though the eyepieces to realize
that there is world of difference between the
two. Always try as much as possible to go for the
higher quality but which will definitely be
higher priced.
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Zoom lenses You only require a single adjustment
for you to adjust the zoom lens of your spotting
scope and with that one adjustment you will have
changed magnification form 20x to 60x. The zoom
lens offers a clear advantage for bird watchers
because of the ability to shift focus fast when
looking for details. The only other thing that
you want to know about zoom lenses is that they
may not gather any light and, as a result, when
you increase magnification using the zoom lens
you get a less light, a narrower field of view as
well as more vibration that reduces stability.
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Light-gathering capacity Just like binoculars
UK, the capacity of the spotting scope to gather
light is determined by the size of the objective
lens the value is likely to be anywhere between
50 mm and 100 mm. Even though larger objective
lenses provide for brighter images, you will be
forced to carry a larger spotting scope that is
more cumbersome to pack and carry along.
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